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

On Feb 18, 2009, at 7:49 PM, Joe Bowbeer wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Don Groves wrote:
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>> 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
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> Can the same be said of shorthand w.r.t. natural language?  (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand)
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> In practice, I think a lot of the extra surface area (redundancy,
> delimiters, grammatical rules) that is built into popular programming
> languages (as well as natural writing systems), is there to serve  
> the human
> mind.

Ok, how about this:

function1 function2 logical-variable
if-logical-variable-is-true-then-do-fun1-otherwise-do-fun2

Concatenative languages be as human readable as you want
them to.
--
don


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