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   by sparist 4y ago

   Original author here. Didn’t expect my little hobby project to land on the front page of Hacker News. In the midst of a complete rewrite of the language which I unfortunately only get to nibble at here and there; will hopefully publish it s
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   by sparist 13y ago

   This is the first animated quine I've ever seen. It may be a first. More on quines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)
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   by sparist 13y ago

   Very important article! Preach it. I remember discovering the Joy language (and combinatory logic) and being blown away by the elegance of being able to express programs just by composing functions. It was a pretty big epiphany to learn t
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   by sparist 14y ago

   Worked fantastically on my iPad. Excellent idea and execution.
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   by sparist 14y ago

   Fixed link: http://om-language.org
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   by sparist 14y ago

   Great article! My forever project is: the syntactically simplest high-level programming language.  This had been kicking around in my brain for a long time, re-emerging every time I learned or read about a new programming language whose syn
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   by sparist 14y ago

   A data stack is indeed not required -- see Om (experimental): http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Om It uses prefix notation: instead of a data stack, each function takes the remainder of the program for rewriting.
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   A fundamentally simple programming language: Om(om-language.org)

   7 points by sparist 14y ago|2 comments