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Re:Fat Dactyls by DylanDmitri on Friday July 16, 2021 @09:23PM (#27862896)
I've been thinking about a programming language where parts of speech are flexible, so if you define a "square" function you could write both "square 3" and "3 squared".
Re:Fat Dactyls by bmn__ on Saturday July 17, 2021 @02:41AM (#27863950)
Already taken to its logical conclusion: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Perligata
Re:Fat Dactyls by ampdepolymerase on Saturday July 17, 2021 @12:07AM (#27863489)
Try some of the DSLs for quantum computers. You basically want all of your operators to be commutative.
Re:Fat Dactyls by gumby on Friday July 16, 2021 @11:44PM (#27863421)
Have your read “Nine Hundred Grandmothers” by R. A. Lafferty?