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Re:Cognition: A New Antisyntax Language Redefining Metaprogr... by ret2pop on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @11:26PM (#40232389)
Hi, I'm the one that wrote this blog post! A lot of comments treat this project as a joke or some form of satire, but we've spent 3 months writing this after initially coming up with the idea because we thought nobody had created such a general programming language before. It's good to get some feedback and maybe we've been in our own heads for a little too long, but it's good that someone gets it.
Re:Cognition: A New Antisyntax Language Redefining Metaprogr... by ryanlbrown on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @11:49PM (#40232505)
I read it as probably containing something deep that I should save for when I have time to go through the details. Maybe we syntaxlings need time to get comfortable.
Re:Cognition: A New Antisyntax Language Redefining Metaprogr... by JoelMcCracken on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @11:44PM (#40232483)
Yeah it seemed clear to me it was a research project/demonstration of possibilities. Very cool.
Re:Cognition: A New Antisyntax Language Redefining Metaprogr... by tromp on Thursday May 02, 2024 @04:33AM (#40233968)
> we thought nobody had created such a general programming language before

How is this more general than a language like Binary Lambda Calculus, which can bootstrap into any other language, like Brainfuck in 112 bytes of bootstrap, or even into Cognition itself?