[HN Gopher] Xs: a concatenative array language inspired by kdb+ ...
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       Xs: a concatenative array language inspired by kdb+ and FORTH
        
       Author : kick
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2020-06-06 05:14 UTC (17 hours ago)
        
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       | JadeNB wrote:
       | The tutorial says that 2 + 5 yields 5. I originally thought it
       | was some gotcha about trying to use infix operators in a
       | concatenative language, but the documentation says that it's
       | correctly re-written internally, so I think it's just a typo.
       | 
       | (Incidentally, I tried to C&P the relevant section from the
       | documentation, and I can't highlight in the text at all. How does
       | that work, and why?)
        
       | klibertp wrote:
       | Looks really interesting! I will definitely play with it
       | tomorrow. I used Forth for a bit in the past, and played with
       | Factor a bit; my impression is that Xs looks a bit like the
       | latter, with some parts from J on top (I don't know K, sadly, so
       | I can't say what features Xs borrows from it).
        
       | cheez wrote:
       | what is this obsession with terse languages that look like a
       | composition of random characters, didn't we learn from Perl
        
         | rscho wrote:
         | Terse languages are a must for single or few-user experiments,
         | e.g. research. Not everyone is implementing a commercial
         | website that needs to be understood by 50 people.
        
           | j88439h84 wrote:
           | I still use good variable names in projects where I'm the
           | only person reading the code. I wouldn't remember what things
           | mean otherwise.
        
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