Re: [stack] What does "concatenative" actually mean?
Robbert Dalen <[email protected]>
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> I thought we were talking about "Joy". Of course I agree that Joy is > pure if you take out all the impure functions. The trouble is that > you're left with a language that's useless. > *that* sir, is where we disagree! i am attracted to *pure* joy because of its many (theoretical) properties. in a sense, enchilada is essentially a pure joy, with some more powerful primitives. i guess my design goals are just different from yours. you think types will make the difference. i think immutability will make the difference. granted, enchilada looks like an experiment, but i'm confident that immutability will prove *much* more important than types in the near future. - robbert