Re: [stack] Re: Joy noob checking in!

Rodney D Price <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just my opinion...

I'll vouch for your presentation -- good summaries, and I was going to
post something vaguely similar.

> You sound as if you are looking for an ecosystem, rather than just a
> language.

Sounded that way to me as well.

> Here are a few suggestions:
> P.S.  The ordering above is intentional.  Haskell is my favorite.

I have to say, however, that Rod obviously made a minor typo and
accidentally mis-ordered the concatenative languages, which he
obviously meant to place at the top of the list. :-) I'm kidding, I'm
kidding.

Another language you might possibly appreciate is REBOL, which was
written by a longtime Forth programmer and has a good ecosystem
(although I have NO idea how live its community is). It's kind of
halfway between a concatenative and a "standard" language, and is kind
of ... relaxing ... to read. But then I do Enterprisey Java/XML stuff
for my day job, so almost ANYTHING would seem relaxing.

By the way, if you HAD been interested in bare metal, I'd have
suggested learning colorForth and reimplementing it from scratch. Heh.

> -Rod

-Wm