With Forth, you are probably reaching for the definition of a concatenative language like Joy.
APL, J, K, etc. would also qualify. On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Casey Ransberger <[email protected]>wrote: > I've heavily abridged your message David; sorry if I've dropped important > context. My words below... > > On Sep 3, 2013, at 3:04 PM, David Barbour <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Even better if the languages are good for exploration by genetic > programming - i.e. easily sliced, spliced, rearranged, mutated. > > I've only seen this done with two languages. Certainly it's possible in > any language with the right "semantic chops" but so far it seems like we're > looking at Lisp (et al) and FORTH. > > My observation has been that the main quality that yields (ease of > recombination? I don't even know what it is for sure) is "syntaxlessness." > > I'd love to know about other languages and qualities of languages that are > conducive to this sort of thing, especially if anyone has seen interesting > work done with one of the logic languages. > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > -- -Brian T. Rice
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