[HN Gopher] Forth Lisp Python Continuum: A small highly-dynamic ... ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | 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."_ | | 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: | | 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 | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-04-21 23:00 UTC)