Re: [stack] things

On Mar 4, 2009, at 5:21 AM, spir wrote:

> It may be written in Io (using a modified version of IoPEG, see http://code.google.com/p/iopeg/) 
> , for I'm learning this language.

Why not write it in Factor using Factor's PEG implementation?  You'd  
learn how to use a concatenative language in the process.

> -3- single data type: "thing"
> This is a kind of tree which nodes can have any number of leaf or  
> branch children.

Factor and Joy already allow first-class stacks and arbitrary nesting  
of data types.

> -4- plain text data

Why would you want plain text when you could have structured data?

> -5- one unique "operational" primitive word: "write"

Aka Factor and Joy's '.' word.

> -5- code is thing
> Code is data of the type thing, too.

Joy is the king here.

> comment & criticize; before I really start a foolish implementation.

To be honest, it looks like a waste of time. I'd encourage you to look  
closer at Joy and use Factor before you start thinking of things to  
change. I don't mean do discourage experimentation of course, but you  
asked for criticism, and what you're proposing looks like a (slow)  
dead end.

- John