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Re: Show HN: Lambda 0.2 – a func language better than TypeScrip, jq and jQuery

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Post by henryluo »

philonoist wrote: post #13

Searching and narrowing down to doubts in this language in google with this name will be difficult :/

Yes, I thought of this issue when I name it Lambda. But I like the name 'Lambda'. Once get over the initial stage, Lambda will be easy for people to remember.

Re: Show HN: Lambda 0.2 – a func language better than TypeScrip, jq and jQuery

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Post by ifh-hn »

I know this isn't quite the same thing but how does this compare to nushell, which is my current goto for data processing and cli related stuff. It took provides a standard language and processes the various data formats it can read into tanks and records.

Re: Show HN: Lambda 0.2 – a func language better than TypeScrip, jq and jQuery

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Post by perpetua »

ifh-hn wrote: post #15

I know this isn't quite the same thing but how does this compare to nushell, which is my current goto for data processing and cli related stuff. It took provides a standard language and processes the various data formats it can read into tanks and records.

Thanks for bringing up Nushell. I don't have working experience with Nushell. Just by looking at the documentation, I think the obvious differences are: 1. Nushell is a simple shell script. Lambda is a full functional language. Nushell does not have class support. 2. Nushell does not have built-in markup data support. 3. Nushell does not have rich type, pattern matching and schema support. 4. Nushell is CLI. Lambda supports both CLI and GUI.

Re: Show HN: Lambda 0.2 – a func language better than TypeScrip, jq and jQuery

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Post by ifh-hn »

perpetua wrote: post #16
ifh-hn wrote: post #15

I know this isn't quite the same thing but how does this compare to nushell, which is my current goto for data processing and cli related stuff. It took provides a standard language and processes the various data formats it can read into tanks and records.

Thanks for bringing up Nushell. I don't have working experience with Nushell. Just by looking at the documentation, I think the obvious differences are: 1. Nushell is a simple shell script. Lambda is a full functional language. Nushell does not have class support. 2. Nushell does not have built-in markup data support. 3. Nushell does not have rich type, pattern matching and schema support. 4. Nushell is CLI. Lambda s…

Nushell is a lot more than a simple shell script, it's a full programming language. Certainly no markup support builtin though.

Unless I'm misunderstanding nushell has a type system and is strongly/gradually typed. And there is pattern matching too, though unsure what you mean by schema support?

Re: Show HN: Lambda 0.2 – a func language better than TypeScrip, jq and jQuery

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Post by perpetua »

ifh-hn wrote: post #17
perpetua wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for bringing up Nushell. I don't have working experience with Nushell. Just by looking at the documentation, I think the obvious differences are: 1. Nushell is a simple shell script. Lambda is a full functional language. Nushell does not have class support. 2. Nushell does not have built-in markup data support. 3. Nushell does not have rich type, pattern matching and schema support. 4. Nushell is CLI. Lambda s…

Nushell is a lot more than a simple shell script, it's a full programming language. Certainly no markup support builtin though. Unless I'm misunderstanding nushell has a type system and is strongly/gradually typed. And there is pattern matching too, though unsure what you mean by schema support?

thanks for pointing out. I did not notice that nushell has pattern matching. for schema support, I mean something like RelaxNG, or XML Schema.

Re: Show HN: Lambda 0.2 – a func language better than TypeScrip, jq and jQuery

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Post by perpetua »

ifh-hn wrote: post #17
perpetua wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for bringing up Nushell. I don't have working experience with Nushell. Just by looking at the documentation, I think the obvious differences are: 1. Nushell is a simple shell script. Lambda is a full functional language. Nushell does not have class support. 2. Nushell does not have built-in markup data support. 3. Nushell does not have rich type, pattern matching and schema support. 4. Nushell is CLI. Lambda s…

Nushell is a lot more than a simple shell script, it's a full programming language. Certainly no markup support builtin though. Unless I'm misunderstanding nushell has a type system and is strongly/gradually typed. And there is pattern matching too, though unsure what you mean by schema support?

I agree that Nushell is close to a full programming language.

Re: Show HN: Lambda 0.2 – a func language better than TypeScrip, jq and jQuery

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Post by perpetua »

ifh-hn wrote: post #17
perpetua wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for bringing up Nushell. I don't have working experience with Nushell. Just by looking at the documentation, I think the obvious differences are: 1. Nushell is a simple shell script. Lambda is a full functional language. Nushell does not have class support. 2. Nushell does not have built-in markup data support. 3. Nushell does not have rich type, pattern matching and schema support. 4. Nushell is CLI. Lambda s…

Nushell is a lot more than a simple shell script, it's a full programming language. Certainly no markup support builtin though. Unless I'm misunderstanding nushell has a type system and is strongly/gradually typed. And there is pattern matching too, though unsure what you mean by schema support?

Lambda has first-class type support. Type can be constructed like data at runtime under Lambda, which is more powerful than most programming languages.
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