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

On Mon, 10 May 2010, John Cowan wrote:

> Duke Normandin scripsit:
>
> > I've reading all I can about Miranda these last few days (as well as
> > looking at Joy). I'm sure liking Miranda! Dead (dog-go) community
> > though.  Research Software Ltd and http://miranda.org.uk appear to be
> > comatose to boot.
>
> Miranda (a trademark of Research Software Ltd.) suffers from the usual
> problem of languages that the inventor tries to keep proprietary: death.

You bet! and it's too bad, because Miranda appears to me (so far) to
be a sweet language. Too bad he/they couldn't be persuaded to let it
go Open-Source perhaps giving it a second chance.

> Now that we're outside the concatenative space, let me add my
> recommendation for Pure, an impure eager functional programming language,
> at <pure-lang.googlecode.com>.  It's based on general equational term
> rewriting, of which lambda calculus (which is fully supported) is just
> a subset.  It's also dynamically typed, has a fairly active ecosystem
> considering how new it is, and emphasizes practical applications.

I sure will look at it! Would I be correct in assuming that you would
advise to drop Joy as well? What about Factor?

> > Interesting as well! My interest would be only in context of *nix or
> > MacOS X. ;)
>
> F# runs fine on Mono, and Mono runs fine on Mac OS X using MacPorts.

Cool!

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