Re: [stack] a concatenative language for the Semantic Web

Joshua Shinavier <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1) There is only one "operator" (a dispatch function called op) in the
> language; everything else is treated as a constant.  For instance,
> whereas in Joy you would write

I think one of Apter's experimental languages used something like
this; a bare word simply pushes the function on the stack, while an
exclamation mark executes the function at the TOS.

> 3) There is no single global stack in Ripple.  Instead, Ripple is
> geared towards "streams" of stacks in order to deal with RDF's
> multivalued relations.   Filters may consume more than one stack, and
> produce any number of stacks.  E.g.

Wow. This seems very significant.

> The three stacks continue down the evaluation "pipeline" individually,
> and further operations are applied to each of them in turn.

In turn, or in parallel?

I'll be reading more about this.

> Josh

-Billy