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.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lucio De Re writes: > > On 6/20/18, Ethan A. Gardener <eeke...@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
