Re: [stack] Cat article submission to Doctor Dobbs Journal

On Feb 10, 2008 1:38 PM, Stevan Apter <[email protected]> wrote:
> chris:
>
>
> > You keep saying concatenative languages, and I am talking about
> > stack-based languages. I am still not sure which languages are
> > technically concatenative (is Forth? is JVML? is PostScript?).
>
> i've been up and down this road so many times i'm giving names to
> the rocks. am i wrong in thinking that the languages we're
> concerned with (in this group) are those in which wholes are built
> from parts by concatenation and where concatenation denotes a
> fundamental operation, either composition or application (or
> something else)?
>
> joy and its descendents satisfy that definition. other languages
> can be restricted in various ways to satisfy it.

Hi Stevan,

This seems more or less like the definition that majority of the group
has agreed upon. In your opinion what languages other than Joy does it
include?

- Christopher