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The Binary Lambda Calculus is described in [1],[2] and further inspired this IOCCC winner [3].
[1] http://tromp.github.io/cl/Binary_lambda_calculus.html [2] http://tromp.github.io/cl/cl.html [3] http://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/hint.html
My recent endeavour was a language with only five constructs that would mimic mathematics in the way we program:
= assign
$ print
@ loop
? condition ! else
# definition/function
$ 'Hello world'
I thought developing a browser extension to allow Uno being run from the address bar for quick calculations would be an interesting project.
One aspect of the language was that Unix regular expressions were a built-in type, and so were associate arrays. These two features worked together in a cool way:
x['hi there'] = 5
x['hello'] = 2
# regular expressions are enclosed in `backquotes`
x[`hell.`] == [2]
x[`h.*`] == [5, 2]A C like language with golang like syntax. Pure Go language implementation.
https://shanhu.io/smlvm - shows the dependency structure of the project.
https://github.com/shanhuio/smlhome - example code that we wrote in the language.
When I was in college, I was addicted to Starcraft II. Luckily, I primarily played 4v4s so the brainpower necessary to win wasn't nearly as high as 1v1s (which left far less room to meme, so I didn't enjoy them nearly as much). However, while playing game after game in the evenings, I was always frustrated that I was using the inputs and outputs of my body so inefficiently. Starcraft tied up my eyes and my hands, but…
This is really interesting. How are you able to multitask so well? I can't hardly listen to a podcast and code at the same time, let alone play a game.
I couldn't listen to a podcast and code at the same time either, probably. If I'm listening to a podcast, I'm mentally trying to process it. If I'm coding, I'm mentally trying to plan/process what I've done. Any mental processing from one takes away from the other.
Podcasts, though, don't require any use of your hands. I actually feel guilty _just_ listening to podcasts (or similar) unless I'm also doing something like painting or paperwork that requires hands but not brainpower. I recognize it's kind of irrational, but it just feels like a waste of time and potential when I'm (probably) not going to live forever.
I think it's just a matter of recognizing what your potential inputs (seeing, hearing, touch, processing) and outputs (hands, voice, mental "caches" like outlines that you can context switch back into later) are and choosing activities to multitask that take advantage of the maximum amount of each without overlapping.
But 'creating a language' is just a tool in the programmer's tool box that allows a set of capabilities to be strung together in different ways automatically. That has been a useful tool ever since Jacquard used it to program his looms.
Yes, CoffeeScript, in 2009. Despite being a modest, fun experiment in stripping JavaScript down to a minimal skin, and without any corporate backing, it wound up catching on a little bit. Thanks to the hard work of Geoffrey Booth and Simon Lydell, among others, there's a new "V2" version that includes many ES6 and 7 features that's almost ready to go: http://coffeescript.org/v2/ CoffeeScript was designed extremely co…
Yes, CoffeeScript, in 2009. Despite being a modest, fun experiment in stripping JavaScript down to a minimal skin, and without any corporate backing, it wound up catching on a little bit. Thanks to the hard work of Geoffrey Booth and Simon Lydell, among others, there's a new "V2" version that includes many ES6 and 7 features that's almost ready to go: http://coffeescript.org/v2/ CoffeeScript was designed extremely co…
It was a huge net positive for web development. 2009-2011 were really heady times - a whole programming community emerged from a deep, dark cave with new tools and a new optimism for the web.
When I was in college, I was addicted to Starcraft II. Luckily, I primarily played 4v4s so the brainpower necessary to win wasn't nearly as high as 1v1s (which left far less room to meme, so I didn't enjoy them nearly as much). However, while playing game after game in the evenings, I was always frustrated that I was using the inputs and outputs of my body so inefficiently. Starcraft tied up my eyes and my hands, but…
I would love to be able to code, using a headset+phone combo, while wandering around in a park.
In college I did a project where I created a visual programming language. I thought it would make the program easier to read, but in hindsight it's pretty clear that these systems would be too cumbersome to use except when teaching basic programming concepts. Professionally, no, but I've taken the approach of "I'm writing a compiler" when ingesting someone else's xml schema. It's very useful when you need to identify…