An Attempt at a Compelling Articulation of Forth's Practical Strengths and Eternal Usefulness

im-just-lee.ing

cross-posted to:
[email protected]

An Attempt at a Compelling Articulation of Forth's Practical Strengths and Eternal Usefulness

im-just-lee.ing

AndyM to

Concatenative ProgrammingEnglish · 28 days ago

cross-posted to:
[email protected]

Posted on lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/iuzgps

You must log in or # to comment.

Chat

Concatenative Programming

concatenative

Create a post

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

Hello!

This space is for sharing news, experiences, announcements, questions, showcases, etc. regarding concatenative programming concepts and tools.

We’ll also take any programming described as:

pipelined
stack-oriented
tacit
postfix / reverse Polish notation (RPN)
fluent
cascading
chained

From Wikipedia:

A concatenative programming language is a point-free computer programming language in which all expressions denote functions, and the juxtaposition of expressions denotes function composition. Concatenative programming replaces function application, which is common in other programming styles, with function composition as the default way to build subroutines.

For example, a sequence of operations in an applicative language like the following:

y = foo(x)
z = bar(y)
w = baz(z)

…is written in a concatenative language as a sequence of functions:

x foo bar baz

Active Languages

Let me know if I’ve got any of these misplaced!

Primarily Concatenative

Concatenative-ish, Chain-y, Pipe-y, Uniform Function Call Syntax, etc.

Cheat Sheets & Tutorials

Discord

IRC

#concatenative on irc.libera.chat

Wikis

concatenative wiki

Wikipedia Topics

Subreddits

GitHub Topics

Blogs

planet-factor

Practice

Codewars (Forth, Factor, Nim)
Advent of Code
Code Golf (Forth, Factor, Nim)
Project Euler
Exercism (Nim)
Perl Weekly Challenge

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

2 users / day
4 users / week
14 users / month
64 users / 6 months
50 local subscribers
198 subscribers
202 Posts
111 Comments
Modlog

mods:
Ategon
Andy