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

On Nov 24, 2007 12:52 AM, Daniel Ehrenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> I hope people don't begrudge me for failing to answer the survey,

Certainly not.

> but
> here's the definition of concatenative languages I thought was fairly
> universal: a concatenative programming language was one where
> concatenation meant function composition, and programs are written in
> terms of function composition rather than direct application to
> arguments. That's not a definition for beginners, but users of
> concatenative languages can fill in most of the blanks. I think I
> missed the definition discussion; what were other definitions?

There were some discussions that I was privy to here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/concatenative/message/3314
I am sure there are older ones as well.

FWIW I like your definition.

- Christopher