Re: [stack] things

On Mar 4, 2009, at 2:21 AM, spir wrote:

> Hello concatenators,
>
> All those talks about concatenativity let me "dream" about a tiny  
> language designed only to exhibit some properties -- or the lack of  
> them. An attempt to have a base of concrete ;-) facts to reason.
> Here a kind of informal description I wish you experimented language  
> designers will comment & criticize; before I really start a foolish  
> implementation. 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.
> Then I intend to explore how modifications will let the language get  
> or lose this one or that one property.

You are now officially hooked! No other programming paradigm
in existence (that I've heard of anyway) has created as many new
forms of itself as this one. It's like a virus that takes up residence
in a person's brain and can never be driven out -- it can only be
placated by writing one of your own. This is the source of the old
statement: "When you've seen one Forth, you've seen one Forth."

This is a good thing, however, as it is what got us to this point.
--
don