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Re:Ioke is a folding language by fhdhcdhedh on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @01:57AM (#9762852)
I don't get it. The page mentions what goals ioke is trying to achieve, but then offers no meaningful demonstration whatsoever of the language's compelling features. I'm left with the impression that "it's good because I say so."

I'm really intrigued, but I don't even know what I'm looking at. The language guide didn't help either.

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Re:Ioke is a folding language by beagle3 on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @03:22AM (#9763093)
I haven't looked at it recently, but a couple of years ago, the idea seemed to be (explicitly) "I'm willing to give up run time to reduce program length and coding time", but (implicitly) without straying far from Ruby+IO.

The "what's different" examples back at the time showed a few Ioke programs that were half the length of the equivalent Java and Ruby ones and running at 5 times as slow; Coming from an APL/K/J background, I was unimpressed by this tradeoff.

Have no idea if things are different with Ioke today, and not enough time to look at it again right now, sadly.

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