[HN Gopher] Forth Lisp Python Continuum: A small highly-dynamic ...
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       Forth Lisp Python Continuum: A small highly-dynamic self-
       bootstrapping language
        
       Author : kick
       Score  : 111 points
       Date   : 2020-04-21 15:17 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | jjcc wrote:
       | Wow! That's wonderful!. Forth and Lisp were my favorite languages
       | long long time ago. Python is my current daily use language among
       | others. I even don't know they are connected.
        
         | Zaak wrote:
         | They're not /really/ connected, at least historically. But the
         | author sees a reasonable progression in ease of use, while
         | maintaining a lot of flexibility. And the idea of starting with
         | a forth-like system, building a lisp-like system with it, then
         | putting a python-like syntax on top of it is very interesting.
        
       | jgrant27 wrote:
       | A Ruby subset in Common Lisp (circa 2010)
       | https://imagine27.com/ruby_subset_implementation
        
       | yesenadam wrote:
       | I love it! (Also love Forth.) For years I programmed mainly in
       | Cython, where you can float in-between Python and C, making each
       | line as C-like or Python-like as you want, whichever suits the
       | needs of the moment better, and can use packages/libraries from
       | both. I liked that floaty feeling, but having 3 dimensions is a
       | whole new ball-game.
       | 
       | I have to share what n-gate said about Cython, it's so funny and
       | true:
       | 
       |  _...a horrible chimera of a programming language, wherein the
       | drawbacks and limitations of Python are augmented by the
       | drawbacks and limitations of C. The result is a language that
       | introduces header files to Python and requires breathtaking
       | amounts of boilerplate. The primary goal of Cython appears to be
       | transforming the programming experience from "implementing a
       | solution to a given problem" to "trying to guess when to turn off
       | exception handling so that your code runs marginally faster."_
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       | http://n-gate.com/fosdem/
        
       | jes5199 wrote:
       | this is really cool! I've actually been wondering for a while
       | what a language that's both Lisp and something concatinative
       | would look like, but I keep getting tangled up without actually
       | solving it. I'm going to study this one
        
       | kick wrote:
       | Since Github is down, here's another link on this that's
       | interesting.
       | 
       | On the steps it took to get it self-hosted, published a few days
       | ago:
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       | https://blog.asrpo.com/flpc_is_now_self_hosted
        
       | hota_mazi wrote:
       | Oh dear...
       | 
       | https://github.com/asrp/flpc/blob/master/precompiled/flpc-ge...
        
         | asplake wrote:
         | Github being down, that is
        
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