[HN Gopher] Xs: a concatenative array language inspired by kdb+ ... ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (cryptm.org) (TXT) w3m dump (cryptm.org) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-06-06 23:00 UTC)