On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, at 4:58 AM, Lucio De Re wrote: > On 6/20/18, Ethan A. Gardener <eeke...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > [ ... ] Most of it is going into game scripting at the moment, but on the > > back > > burner is a Forth-based project; a sort of operating system where the > > primary interface to all tasks is a Forth interpreter. [ ... ] > > Bakul may not agree, but that sounds like a novel take on APL. > Different underlying syntax, but conceptually quite similar.
I knew it must have been done before, but APL is one of the many things I never got around to looking into. > Forth is > one of those things that happened while I wasn't watching, so I'm not > at all familiar with it, so it makes sense for me to use the model I > know, but this sounds quite intriguing. > > Do you know APL and/or any of its derivatives? You'd bit a better > judge. The idea of the full interpreter at the command line is a > powerful one and APL's one liners handle much better the shortcomings > of any Unix shell's regarding multi-line constructs. > > It would interesting to explore your particular take on this and place > it in a broader context. Thanks! I don't know APL at all, beyond the fact that its need for a graphical (or at least sophisticated) display held it back in the past. I should probably look into it now, I'm sure it would save me from making some mistakes in my design. > > Lucio. > -- The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer
