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wryl

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About wryl

A captive simplex.

https://wryl.tech

Recent public activity

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    Comment #40888175

    Yep, that's what I meant. Lots of comments, not a lot of time for proofreading!

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    Comment #40888135

    Hi! Yes! I'm intending on adding an RSS feed at https://wryl.tech/log/feed.rss within the next few days. I have a habit of hand-writing the markup for the site, so it's missing a f…

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    Comment #40886080

    It's still really impressive! Comparisons were thrown around to nushell, which is also a really impressive project. I can see the vision and I hope to follow along! :)

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    Comment #40886071

    With a splash of Joe Armstrong!

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    Comment #40885690

    This is really, really cool! Definitely going to share this around, I love tools like this. They bring so much visibility into dark spaces.

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    Comment #40885648

    Thanks for the feedback regarding this, I've been trying to find a middle-ground between my authoring style (writing raw HTML with low overhead, instead of using a static site gene…

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    Comment #40885448

    Thank you very much! Very much in line with the handmade ethos, and I'm hoping to get involved with more handmade (and handmade-like) things in the future. :)

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    Comment #40885336

    While I sympathize that the stakes don't appear to match up, I am talking about all software, and also taking into account the fact that these frustrations are numerous. It'd be on…

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    Comment #40885218

    Problems surrounding computing education do compound these frustrations, and I sympathize. Having worked for larger organizations (whatever FAANG calls itself these days, I can't k…

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    Comment #40885189

    Well, that certainly wasn't my intention, but in an environment of "I have a silver bullet and it'll cost you $X", I can understand the sentiment. At the same time, I do want to sh…

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    Comment #40885179

    Thank you for the kind words! "I appreciate them" would be an understatement. And I agree entirely. Tracking the history of an abstraction will usually tell you its root, though it…

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    Comment #40885056

    Hi! Author here. I think it's important to address certain aspects of this post that people tend to misunderstand, so I'll just list them here to save myself the effort. * I do not…

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    Comment #40132083

    What's nice about rewriting as a concept is that bolt-on extensions to make things fast don't have to be awkward. Built-in rules that take priority over user-defined ones, as well …

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    Comment #40128708

    Devine and a few others are actually working that out! We're collaborating in the Concatenative Languages Discord server on how to use, extend and improve the language.

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    Comment #40128643

    Not particularly, no. Nothing specific. The semantics of the language lend themselves well to an implementation in hardware. I had a sketch in VHDL in the time I spent developing t…

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    Comment #40128337

    It's a general purpose programming language who's main paradigm is rule-based pattern matching. A sample. (-- ?x) () -- (Now we can add comments to what we are doing.) -- (Let's ad…

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    Comment #40127927

    Howdy. I'm Wryl, the original author of this language. I sketched it out in late 2018 and played with it in 2019 after seeing some Mill architecture articles floating around. I mos…