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Will never not complain about languages not giving code examples. It’s like writing a charting/UI/style library and showing no examples. Just what?
by jwilber 7mo ago
Will never not complain about languages not giving code examples. It’s like writing a charting/UI/style library and showing no examples. Just what?
- robotresearcher 7mo agoYou overlooked the examples. They might not satisfy you, but there are examples.
- dented42 7mo agoTo be fair, the examples are extremely easy to overlook. They are also, to put it delicately, not the most helpful.
- dstanko 7mo agoapparently fold example is very helpful to some.
- robotresearcher 7mo agoAbsolutely agree. But fairness precludes denying the existence of examples. They are not prominent, but they are in a section with the heading 'Examples'.
- klibertp 7mo agoThe examples are fine for an early-stage poc project like this one. `minutes` with evaluation trace and `[Fold]<-` are illustrative, and if you work them out with pen and paper, you can get a good grasp on the main ideas of the language. That you have to search for them on a page that looks like a slightly-formatted README instead of having a nice scrollable with syntax-highlighted snippets at the top is because this IS a slightly-formatted README - and that's also completely fine at this stage. What's important is that there are a few interesting concepts there and that it was published. Even if this one fizzles, as 99.999% of languages do, that doesn't matter if some other language down the line gets inspired by those concepts.
- keeganpoppen 7mo agoif it's something you do 100% of the time, is it really adding any information to the world?
- dstanko 7mo agoabsolutely does! for a new language that no one has heard of, it is essential that examples make at least a parallel with other languages. providing examples for mundane things is very useful to build the understanding with the reader who hasn't been writing a paper on OM language.
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