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Re:Show HN: The Taka Programming Language by theamk on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:06AM (#46136102)
Neat!

Forward polish notation + multi-line programs is _weird_ though. It means you read tokens _right-to-left_ and then top to bottom. Readme gives good example in [0]:

The long form (same in Taka or Forth) of

    4
    3
    2
    +
is equivalent in Taka to

    3 4
    + 2
(and both leave 5 on top of stack, and 4 underneath it)

[0] https://codeberg.org/marton/taka#basic-syntax-and-execution

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Re:Show HN: The Taka Programming Language by mgunyho on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:32AM (#46136502)
Yep, I think in Taka the most confusing case is lists - writing

    list [
     1
     2
     3
    ]
creates the list [3 2 1]. (When indexing, the first item of the list is the one on top of the stack.) This has tripped me up several times.
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