Re: [stack] Abstracting away the complexity is the goal.

my first implementation was 01.k.  then you or kerby observed that 10
had the nice property that distinct programs had distinct representations
as binary numbers.  hence 10.k.


On Feb 24, 2010, at 9:46 AM, William Tanksley, Jr wrote:

> John Nowak <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure if this fits anyone's definition of a "one dimensional
> > facility", but it may be of interest:
> > http://www.eecs.usma.edu/webs/people/okasaki/jfp03.ps
> >
> 
> Indeed it is; it's Okasaki's narrative in which he helps a student whose
> keyboard has lost its parentheses, thus requiring him to write only "flat"
> programs. Entertaining. That was one of my inspirations for searching for
> the zeroone programming language, which Kerby (
> http://tunes.org/~iepos/joy.html) finally helped me find.
> 
> Kerby modified his combinator search program to work with it (see above);
> Apter wrote his own implementation (at http://www.nsl.com/k/10.k; named 10,
> probably because APL users are used to reading everything backwards ;-); and
> I wrote my own search program and implementation (at
> http://bitbucket.org/wtanksleyjr/tworing/).
> 
> A flat concatenative language doesn't meet what Glur expects, though. He
> wants a flat language without any capacity for explicit dataflow
> manipulation; and that's the one I said won't be a complete programming
> language.
> 
> - jn
> >
> 
> -Wm
> 
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