Re: [stack] function "adjoinment"?

stevan apter <[email protected]> wrote:

> William Tanksley, Jr wrote:
> > Meanwhile, APL is one now-computer language that actually started out
> itself
> > life as a communication language between humans. One of its successors
> might
> > be worthy of your study.
> true.
>

I think you meant, "Ver". (A Lincos word.)  :-)

I should add that Apter's http://www.nsl.com is a good place to gather info
about the APL descendants (if you're willing to do some thinking). Although,
stevan, I note that you haven't written about Ripple; that has some loose
connections to Enchilada, so it might be interesting to you.

and don't overlook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincos_(language).


Interesting indeed (thank you!), although I don't think this fits what I
want. I don't want a language that instructs its hearer from scratch; I want
one that I can start with a reasonable amount of common ground. Building a
computer language requires common ground -- no computer is going to learn
from the language user, they have to start with what the compiler writer
tells them. (And that's pretty much all they have.)

-Wm


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