Re: [stack] What does "concatenative" actually mean?

>

> And here's another difference between pure functional languages and
> concatenative languages, as a class: a naive implementation of a
> concatenative language (i.e. without any optimizer whatsoever) will  
> run
> code reasonably quickly. Forth is a prime example; Joy is somewhat  
> of an
> example, although its extensive use of functional abilities slows it
> down a bit.
>
>
enchilada is purely functional *by design*.... without using monads or  
uniqueness types.
enchilada also happens to be 'concatenative' - whatever that means :)

i believe that marrying the two traits, purely functional and  
concatenative, will give us the nice properties we want, i.e.

you can factor out any valid (sub)expression and replace that with  
a ...word.... (denoting the factored expression).

i believe this property also holds for joy, if it is stripped from  
it's file manipulation primitives.

> > -Rod
>
> -Wm
>
>
- robbert.

> 



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