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Original author here. Didn’t expect my little hobby project to land on the front page of Hacker News. In the midst of a complete rewrite of the language which I unfortunately only …

This is the first animated quine I've ever seen. It may be a first. More on quines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)

Very important article! Preach it. I remember discovering the Joy language (and combinatory logic) and being blown away by the elegance of being able to express programs just by co…

Worked fantastically on my iPad. Excellent idea and execution.

Fixed link: http://om-language.org

Great article! My forever project is: the syntactically simplest high-level programming language. This had been kicking around in my brain for a long time, re-emerging every time I…

A data stack is indeed not required -- see Om (experimental): http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Om It uses prefix notation: instead of a data stack, each function takes the remain…