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I'm curious how this sentiment of pg's rhymes with his two languages, Arc and Bel. As a person who has written a Bel implementation, I find one of the traits the language has is th…

Fun side note on this: Bel's macros are definitely macros and not Kernel-style operatives. Here is a comparison, for clarity: (A) Bel's macros do a syntax->syntax transformation…

Hooray! Another Bel implementation! As someone who is on their third year of Bel implementation -- getting there -- I recognize many of the insights in this post about continuation…

As a westerner living in mainland China, I might be able to weigh in on this. China's data does indeed look hard to believe from basically anywhere outside of China (and New Zealan…

Neither the type system of C++ nor the type system of TS is sound, in the sense of "the type system rejects all incorrect programs". If what you meant by "strong" is just "you can …

This reply is a good example of how "strongly typed" ends up meaning practically nothing -- except possibly "the kind of type system I prefer". I once attended a talk where the spe…

The two behaviors don't seem very related. In `if a == b == c`, the value of `b` is evaluated only once, even if `b` is in fact a bigger/side-effecting expression, and `c` might no…

If I may be so bold as to recommend my in-progress Bel implementation: https://github.com/masak/bel Caveat: I'm still working towards being able to recommend Bel _unconditionally_,…

He's poking fun at himself with the whole "programming has never been my forté" -- the fact that he kept count of all the bugs in TEX and METAFONT is the amazing thing. At the risk…

I know the Swedish like to repeat that there is no second wave like in the other European countries, but... I've been looking at this graph for the past few weeks: https://ourworld…

So, I've been thinking about this comment a lot over the weekend. It is interesting to consider a "cool kids" demographic, of developers who stray far enough outside of the mainstr…

There are a few more hobbyist implementations out there, at various stages of completion: - https://github.com/ajlopez/beljs - https://github.com/erdos/carillon - https://github.co…

Yes. Somewhat simplified, hyphens inside of identifiers are allowed and not taken to mean infix minus. I remember when this was switched on. Larry Wall tried it out on the entire s…

...but then the television would be turned to an actual channel, not to a dead one...?

The (old) MIX programs in The Art of Computer Programming by Knuth were often self-modifying, in the sense that they modified jump addresses at the end of routines to return to the…

Or maybe we needed to scale to some point with the Turing model for the Church model to assert itself and prove its merits in comparison. It's a bit more thrilling to think of it t…

Oh, we'll get unquotes, don't worry. It's more a question of not-yet-implemented than anything else. Here I might as well ask HN what syntax I should go with for unquotes in 007. I…

Author here. Thanks for all the kind words. README files are important, and I worked quite a bit on this one. Had some fun writing it. A quick summary of the language itself: I fel…

The postcircumfix {} is still there, and used. It just unambiguously takes an expression, and doesn't try to intuit string quotes in some cases. So you use {} for indexing with a g…

Here's the Perl 6 solution: multi infix: (2, 2) { 5 } say 2 + 2; # 5

I just wrote a post about MoarVM, too: http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/a-vm-for-6model . Slightly more slanted towards how this fits into the evolution of Perl 6 implementation…

I'll make sure to link to previous years. In the meantime, here are the links to the 2010 edition: Tasks: http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/masaks-perl-6-coding-con... Code revie…

Perl 6, using Rakudo: perl6 -e 'loop { print .roll.chr }' In fact, perl6 -e 'loop { print .roll }' will work too if your terminal is set up properly.

You should never "wait" for a programming language. :) I say this as someone who is deeply involved in Perl 6 development. Learn Perl 5 if you want to learn how a full-featured, co…

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