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Re:Why bother with _any_ programming language? by jemfinch on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @01:43PM (#1595398)
> I can extend the list: one applicative, one concatenative

Because it really matters whether your function names go before their arguments or after.

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Re:Why bother with _any_ programming language? by loup-vaillant on Thursday August 12, 2010 @03:11AM (#1597467)
What are you talking about? Function arguments are implicit in concatenative languages. Remember: when you write

    1 2 +
You actually write the composition of three functions, which take a stack as input, and return a stack as output. (Well, because the computation is single threaded, you can also say that `1`, `2`, and `+` are procedure that modify a global shared stack).

This has little to do with reversed Haskell code.

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