Re: [stack] Why is point-free form so interesting?

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, William Tanksley, Jr wrote:
> Array dataflow languages are perhaps our best bet. But not any of the
> existing ones, I think. I speculate that we want a stack language with
> a very powerful array-building (or multiset-building) sublanguage, so
> that independent dataflows can be elegantly gathered together into a
> single stack element.

Do you have some URL's for those languages? I can't seem to lay my
Googly fingers on them.

> Okay, that's wild speculation. I really don't know. Some experiments
> are taking shape in my head... I'll have to write these things down
> and see what comes of them.

I'm also brewing something that is looking fun.

I love these languages they are so simple, you can do profound changes
to the semantics and still make progress in short order.



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