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Re:Nimrod: A New Approach to Metaprogramming [video] by klibertp on Friday January 17, 2014 @01:59AM (#7074653)
> This is not a new thing

Yeah, what I wanted to say was "the only aspect worth noting" or something similar. I knew about structural typing and vaguely remembered that row polymorphism exists (but I'm not really sure what it is).

Actually I wanted to play with Joy for a couple of times now, but it seems unmaintained and rather hard to approach. I ended up learning some Forth and (little) some of Factor instead. I think I'll give Cat a shot, I'm not a fan of CLR, but I'd really like to know how you can type concatenative language.

Re:Nimrod: A New Approach to Metaprogramming [video] by groovy2shoes on Friday January 17, 2014 @10:31AM (#7076239)
I'd definitely recommend Cat. It's a very neat language. The reference implementation is written in C#, but I recall seeing a page at one time listing a few implementations in other languages. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find that page now. The Cat website does have an online interpreter, though.

http://www.cat-language.com/interpreter.html