[stack] Re: Introducing the Om language
"Ruurd" <[email protected]> Sat, 05 Jan 2013 10:06:33 -0000
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--R-2WL2885JKMP51laZOgcjex8gnCdDwIgl9ZuQa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, It is nice to see some activity here. An impressive web site you have there= . Makes me feel like an amateur. Now, about concatenative.org. I have manag= ed to create a page for Om. After all, it is a wiki, so everybody can add o= r change or delete a page. But I have not been able to edit the contents pa= ge. I also do not get an error message, so I don't know why that is. Now, a= bout the language Om. In get lost in the example of minutes. Can you show a= trace of the individual steps during evaluation ? Rw --- In [email protected], Jason Erb wrote: > > Dear Concatenativists, >=20 > I've developed a unique concatenative language that I would like to share= : >=20 > http://om-language.org >=20 > The goal was to find "God's programming language": the simplest=A0languag= e=A0possible (mostly so that I could actually implement it) without sacrifi= cing power=A0(as contrasted with languages like Iota and Jot, which are fun= damentally simple but don't have basics like named functions).=A0 This led = to concatenative languages, but Om has taken a few left turns where other c= oncatenative languages have gone right: > - An Om program has only three syntactic elements: operator, operand, and= separator. > - Om uses prefix syntax rather than postfix. > - The only data type exposed by the language is a program. > - Each function takes as input the rest of the program that it is in. >=20 > There is more information on the design, and rationale, in the documentat= ion at=A0http://sparist.github.com/Om . =A0The language is in an early deve= lopment stage, and the documentation is not as full as I would like yet -- = there is much more to write, and I hope to find time to do so in the near f= uture. >=20 >=20 > Any feedback is welcome. =A0I expect that most of the readers of this lis= t have far more experience in language design than I do. =A0If anyone would= like to get involved in further development, or knows of anyone that would= like to fund such an endeavour (long shot), please get in touch. >=20 > If any administrators of http://concatenative.org are here, I would be ho= noured if you could add Om to the list of concatenative languages. >=20 > Best regards, > Jason Erb > http://sparist.com >=20 > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > --R-2WL2885JKMP51laZOgcjex8gnCdDwIgl9ZuQa Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/htm= l4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> </head> <body style=3D"background-color: #fff;"> <span style=3D"display:none"> </span> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStartT|**|-~--> <div id=3D"ygrp-mlmsg" style=3D"position:relative;"> <div id=3D"ygrp-msg" style=3D"z-index: 1;"> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlEndT|**|-~--> <div id=3D"ygrp-text" > =20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20 <p>Hi,<br> <br> It is nice to see some activity here. An impressive web site you have there= . Makes me feel like an amateur. Now, about concatenative.org. I have manag= ed to create a page for Om. After all, it is a wiki, so everybody can add o= r change or delete a page. But I have not been able to edit the contents pa= ge. I also do not get an error message, so I don't know why that is. No= w, about the language Om. In get lost in the example of minutes. Can you sh= ow a trace of the individual steps during evaluation ?<br> <br> Rw<br> <br> --- In <a href=3D"mailto:concatenative%40yahoogroups.com">concatenative@yah= oogroups.com</a>, Jason Erb wrote:<br> ><br> > Dear Concatenativists,<br> > <br> > I've developed a unique concatenative language that I would like t= o share:<br> > <br> > <a href=3D"http://om-language.org">http://om-language.org</a><br> > <br> > The goal was to find "God's programming language": the s= implest=A0language=A0possible (mostly so that I could actually implement it= ) without sacrificing power=A0(as contrasted with languages like Iota and J= ot, which are fundamentally simple but don't have basics like named fun= ctions).=A0 This led to concatenative languages, but Om has taken a few lef= t turns where other concatenative languages have gone right:<br> > - An Om program has only three syntactic elements: operator, operand, = and separator.<br> > - Om uses prefix syntax rather than postfix.<br> > - The only data type exposed by the language is a program.<br> > - Each function takes as input the rest of the program that it is in.<= br> > <br> > There is more information on the design, and rationale, in the documen= tation at=A0<a href=3D"http://sparist.github.com/Om">http://sparist.github.= com/Om</a> . =A0The language is in an early development stage, and the docu= mentation is not as full as I would like yet -- there is much more to write= , and I hope to find time to do so in the near future.<br> > <br> > <br> > Any feedback is welcome. =A0I expect that most of the readers of this = list have far more experience in language design than I do. =A0If anyone wo= uld like to get involved in further development, or knows of anyone that wo= uld like to fund such an endeavour (long shot), please get in touch.<br> > <br> > If any administrators of <a href=3D"http://concatenative.org">http://c= oncatenative.org</a> are here, I would be honoured if you could add Om to t= he list of concatenative languages.<br> > <br> > Best regards,<br> > Jason Erb<br> > <a href=3D"http://sparist.com">http://sparist.com</a><br> > <br> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]<br> ><br> <br> </p> </div> =20=20=20=20=20 <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStart|**|-~--> <div style=3D"color: #fff; 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