Re: [stack] Advantages of cat, joy ..?

On Feb 18, 2009, at 5:10 PM, eas lab wrote:

> ... major snippage...
>
> As a prompt to 'how cat increases productivety', I'm giving
> examples of what IMO *does* increase productivety. OOF and all
> languages have their syntax for any 'construct' including the
> declaration and definition of classes/objects. So eg. an
> IF/THEN/ELSE in all laguages is just a thing with 3 args.
> So you forget about all the syntax crap, and just fill in
> the args.

Exactly! So would you rather see the typical Pascal if-then-else
statement or this:

fun1 fun2 arg if-else

where if-else is a function that examines arg, executes fun1
if arg is true, executes fun2 otherwise, and cleans all three
off the stack leaving the result of the appropriate function in
their place?

Once used to this way of actually forgetting about all the
syntax crap, it becomes just as readable, and far more
succinct than any Pascal-like language.
--
don


> Thanks,
>
> == Chris Glur.