Re: [stack] Survey: Your impressions and thoughts about concatenative languages

Note that I'm going to talk about concatenative languages in general,
not any specific one.

- I feel the advantages of concatenative languages include syntactic
simplicity, semantic closeness to a machine model, dataflow notation,
and syntactic flexibility.

- I feel that the most powerful advantage of concatenative languages
is syntactic simplicity; it allows a language designer to use syntax
for other purposes.

- My positive experiences with concatenative languages have been
programming in Forth, and learning about the others on this list.
(Sorry, I'm not sure how to answer this question.)

- My negative experiences with concatenative languages have been
learning to distinguish compile-time from run-time and definition-time
execution in Forth. But that's just poor documentation, and perhaps a
poor implementation (the three concepts aren't used in most
concatenative languages).

- I feel that for concatenative languages to gain more mainstream
success will require a solid high-level language with multiple
successful implementations or platforms. (Factor is very close to
this.)

- I consider a language to be concatenative when it has the following
properties: (shrug) meets the semi-formal definition using
concatenation of source text.

-Wm