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

On Mon, 10 May 2010, William Tanksley, Jr wrote:

[snip]

> 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.

I must admit that Joy _did_ appeal to me the first time I saw it. How
well I could do with it may never be known. What do you think of
Factor?

> 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.

I have it on my Mac - it's OK, but if I remember correctly, it's like
Smalltalk/Squeak - your stuck with the VM/image thing. I like a file
based language.

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

Why re-implement from scratch? and why colorForth?
-- 
Duke
A: Backwards from the way folks normally read text
A: Because it forces conversations to flow in a nonsensical order.
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