News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language by carapace on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @02:36AM (#18236652)
Sure! I developed an interpreter for Joy in Continuation-Passing Style in Python: http://joypy.osdn.io/

I had just implemented type inference[1] when I got smashed over the brain by Prolog. So now the Python code is in limbo because the Prolog implementation of Joy is blindingly elegant[2].

In Prolog, the Joy interpreter is also the Joy type inferencer.[2]

The compiler (from Joy expressions to new Prolog rules) is five lines long.[2]

[1] http://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Types.html

[2] https://osdn.net/projects/joypy/scm/hg/Joypy/blobs/tip/thun/...

Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language by garmaine on Thursday October 18, 2018 @01:01PM (#18250026)
Thanks!

Yes, there's a real connection between concatinative languages and logic languages. In some sense you can think of a concatinative logic language as Joy with the ability to push "unknown" values onto the stack, as well as a few constraint manipulatives. That's somewhat orthogonal, but it makes sense an interpreter for Joy would be quite compact in prolog.

Thanks for the links, I'll review your work later!

Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language by carapace on Friday October 19, 2018 @01:53AM (#18254475)
Cheers!

You might also like: http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories/

He transforms Haskell to a point-free form that's suspiciously like Joy... ;-)