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Re:Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional progr... by hashmal on Friday July 12, 2019 @04:44PM (#20424328)
It's unbelievable how many languages are introduced without an example on the homepage. Imagine an Apple homepage without any iPhone pictures.
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Re:Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional progr... by agentofuser on Friday July 12, 2019 @05:02PM (#20424463)
It's unbelievable how entitled people can be towards things that are published for free by authors who owe them nothing.

Mirth hasn't been released. I found it and decided to share it.

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Re:Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional progr... by dmitriid on Friday July 12, 2019 @05:09PM (#20424542)
> Mirth hasn't been released. I found it and decided to share it.

So you are actually doing it a disservice. Perhaps the author intended a larger release with better docs and examples (or no release at all if it’s a toy project).

But now it will be yet another “ah, one of those languages with no documentation or viable use cases”.

Languages are a dime a dozen, there are several of then on HN each weak. “How dare you demand something from something made for free” is not a credible defence for anything.

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Re:Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional progr... by tluyben2 on Friday July 12, 2019 @10:43PM (#20426202)
A Forth-y with types, let alone dependent types, are not ‘a dime a dozen’.
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