Lang5 – A Stack Based Array Language

Re:Lang5 – A Stack Based Array Language by scottlocklin on Thursday March 12, 2020 @10:24AM (#22557157)

Kinda neat, but it breaks the APL convention of reading right to left. J version of their example:

+/ 1+ i.100

Interesting that it was developed for the HP48:

http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10500710

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Re:Lang5 – A Stack Based Array Language by quantified on Saturday March 14, 2020 @01:46AM (#22573454)

Being Forth-inspired, you might expect left-to-right...? It’s more of Forth-with-arrays than APL-with-stacks.

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Re:Lang5 – A Stack Based Array Language by renox on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:01PM (#22561126)

Given that I read left to right usually, I think that this is a good change

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Re:Lang5 – A Stack Based Array Language by scottlocklin on Thursday March 12, 2020 @09:31PM (#22563922)

Pretty sure you don't do that in coding. I do in R sometimes because it has ->, but generally speaking, coding is actually done right to left, just like K and Hebrew.

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Re:Lang5 – A Stack Based Array Language by renox on Friday March 13, 2020 @03:55AM (#22565533)

Uh? No I write code (C++) left to right most of the time, and when I have to do a right to left update, the IDE's stupid autocomplete (vscode but other IDE are the same) keeps making annoying unneeded changes.

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Re:Lang5 – A Stack Based Array Language by scottlocklin on Friday March 13, 2020 @11:35PM (#22572985)

Literally everyone writes J or K from left to right also: it's not read that way any more than C is.

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