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Re:Why concatenative programming matters (2012) by moomin on Sunday July 17, 2022 @06:20AM (#32125660)
I can understand why people get excited about the concatenative paradigm, but I’ll concede that my personal take is “Sounds like some bits of LISP married to the point free obsession of some Haskell programmers”
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Re:Why concatenative programming matters (2012) by iostream25 on Sunday July 17, 2022 @06:59AM (#32125794)
actually.... FORTH...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)

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Re:Why concatenative programming matters (2012) by astrobe_ on Sunday July 17, 2022 @11:04AM (#32127436)
Except perhaps that Forth doesn't "obsess" over theory, it is rooted in pragmatism: making a Forth interpreter is easy.
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Re:Why concatenative programming matters (2012) by voxl on Sunday July 17, 2022 @02:36PM (#32129680)
Most if not all concatenative languages are linear. Lisps can also be linear, and languages like Forth can also be non-linear, but there is a cultural divide there.
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