Re: [stack] Survey: Your impressions and thoughts about concatenative languages
Rodney D Price <[email protected]>
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On Nov 22, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Christopher Diggins wrote: > I would like to find out more about what interests people about > concatenative languages. If you would like to particpate please > complete the following sentences, and email me your response. You can > use more than one sentence if neccessary, but please keep your > responses succinct. I will summarize the results of the survey on > Monday. So if you want to participate try to get your response to me > by Sunday. > > - I feel the advantages of concatenative languages are ... > Very short read-eval-print loop, very close to the hardware, natural modularization > > - I feel that the most powerful advantage of concatenative > languages is ... > Close to the hardware for embedded programming (develop on the hardware itself, immediate feedback). > - My positive experiences with concatenative languages have been ... > Scientific and embedded programming in Forth > > - My negative experiences with concatenative language have been ... > The same, caused by the complete lack of a type system in Forth. > > - I feel that for concatenative languages to gain more mainstream > success will require ... > Choose a niche. Embedded programming comes to mind. ;-) You'll never overcome the inertia in other areas (web, ...) and the state of embedded programming is ripe for change. Existing mainstream embedded tools are atrocious... > > - I consider a language to be concatenative when it has the following > properties ... > Has one or two stacks, queues, whatever. Definition isn't too important to me. -Rod Price > > > I look forward to your responses! > Christopher Diggins > [email protected] > > >