From: "Ethan A. Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for?
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:02:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1529596963.3629770.1415920672.0BA55972@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180621044956.64ADA156EFC0@mail.bitblocks.com>
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, at 5:49 AM, Bakul Shah wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 05:58:42 +0200 Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lucio De Re writes:
> > On 6/20/18, Ethan A. Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > > [ ... ] Most of it is going into game scripting at the moment, but on the b
> > ack
> > > burner is a Forth-based project; a sort of operating system where the
> > > primary interface to all tasks is a Forth interpreter. [ ... ]
> >
> > Bakul may not agree, but that sounds like a novel take on APL.
> > Different underlying syntax, but conceptually quite similar. Forth is
> > one of those things that happened while I wasn't watching, so I'm not
> > at all familiar with it, so it makes sense for me to use the model I
> > know, but this sounds quite intriguing.
>
> As a matter of fact some APLers are quite fascinated with
> "concatenative" languages like Forth, Joy, Factor etc.!
Interesting!
>
> > Do you know APL and/or any of its derivatives? You'd bit a better
> > judge. The idea of the full interpreter at the command line is a
> > powerful one and APL's one liners handle much better the shortcomings
> > of any Unix shell's regarding multi-line constructs.
>
> There are some conceptual similarities between stream
> programming using shell pipelines and array programing using
> APL/j/k/q. Array programming is richer as you can pass many
> different things, not just character streams.
It's very much what I've been hoping to achieve, then.
I'll definitely look into it.
--
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-11 6:14 刘宇宝
2018-06-12 14:57 ` 刘宇宝
2018-06-14 2:53 ` N. S. Montanaro
2018-06-14 3:53 ` 刘宇宝
2018-06-14 5:17 ` Lucio De Re
2018-06-14 21:12 ` hiro
2018-06-15 0:57 ` 刘宇宝
2018-06-15 2:24 ` N. S. Montanaro
2018-06-15 11:44 ` hiro
2018-06-16 13:39 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2018-06-16 15:26 ` Jerome Ibanes
2018-06-21 9:06 ` Rui Carmo
2018-06-21 9:53 ` dexen deVries
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2018-06-26 3:24 ` 刘宇宝
2018-06-26 6:36 ` Tyga
2018-06-27 19:10 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-27 18:45 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-14 9:46 ` Tyga
2018-06-14 14:22 ` Steve Simon
2018-06-14 16:15 ` tlaronde
2018-06-14 17:23 ` hiro
2018-06-14 17:45 ` Daniel Camoles
2018-06-15 6:13 ` Mart Zirnask
2018-06-15 13:51 ` Lucio De Re
2018-06-15 14:26 ` hiro
2018-06-15 16:03 ` Mart Zirnask
2018-06-15 17:47 ` Lucio De Re
2018-06-15 19:02 ` Mark van Atten
2018-06-15 23:58 ` Iruatã Souza
2018-06-16 9:35 ` tlaronde
2018-06-18 8:35 ` Mark van Atten
2018-06-14 21:20 ` hiro
2018-06-20 21:35 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-21 3:58 ` Lucio De Re
2018-06-21 4:49 ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-21 16:02 ` Ethan A. Gardener [this message]
2018-06-21 15:23 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-21 18:03 ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-25 9:33 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-26 5:17 ` 刘宇宝
2018-06-27 19:01 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-26 21:03 ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-21 5:39 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-06-21 16:39 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-21 20:18 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2018-06-28 9:57 ` Richard Miller
2018-06-27 5:18 ` Iruatã Souza
2018-06-28 2:04 ` Tyga
2018-06-21 7:20 ` Mart Zirnask
2018-06-21 15:11 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-24 8:22 ` 刘宇宝
2018-06-15 8:16 cinap_lenrek
[not found] <1740027127.295380.1529081094082.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2018-06-15 16:44 ` Brian L. Stuart
2018-06-15 18:16 ` Mark van Atten
[not found] <1401313358.335074.1529087916083.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2018-06-15 18:38 ` Brian L. Stuart
[not found] <135406475.3232013.1530116414782.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2018-06-27 16:20 ` Brian L. Stuart
2018-06-28 2:06 ` Tyga
2018-06-28 7:22 ` Mart Zirnask
2018-06-28 18:47 ` Bakul Shah
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