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At least it has examples!
The Om Programming Language
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Re: The Om Programming Language
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Seems totally appropriate to the project. It’s like going to a GitHub repo and scrolling to the Readme.
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I am always kind of surprised when I go to a landing page for a language and there isn't any actual code. This is one of my biggest complaints about the rust language page, it feels crazy to me that there's no code and I think this is just a ridiculous choice (and I know this has been brought up before). The old page had a built-in sandbox. Go used to have a more "Front and center" sandbox too but at least it's there…
There is code, search for 'examples'. It concludes by implementing a fold: define { [Fold]
great example! as someone who writes a Fold function every day, this explains the power of the language very well. ;)
Re: The Om Programming Language
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It perplexes me that someone would not have a few cookbook style examples above the fold on a website that describes a novel programming language.
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Can you please not post shallow dismissals of other people's work? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. They also ask you not to be snarky.
Nasty swipes like this routinely get upvoted, and then we end up with them at the top of a thread, choking out everything HN is supposed to be for. (I've downweighted it now.)
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There is code, search for 'examples'. It concludes by implementing a fold: define { [Fold]
great example! as someone who writes a Fold function every day, this explains the power of the language very well. ;)
As is clearly explained on the web page, this is not a programming language for everyday tasks, it's an early stage proof of concept that can be used to explore how computer science might be expressed in unusual ways.
Implementing fold would be something of a milestone in such a language.
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There is code. Small examples start halfway down the page, and there's one 20-line example. Not much, but it's not accurate to say there's none. It would be helpful to see any kind of motivation for the project though. Anything at all.
On my phone that code is about 250+ lines down, probably 4-5 screens down. It basically doesn't exist as far as marketing is concerned.
So it just needs a TOC.
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I am always kind of surprised when I go to a landing page for a language and there isn't any actual code. This is one of my biggest complaints about the rust language page, it feels crazy to me that there's no code and I think this is just a ridiculous choice (and I know this has been brought up before). The old page had a built-in sandbox. Go used to have a more "Front and center" sandbox too but at least it's there…
> I am always kind of surprised when I go to a landing page for a language and there isn't any actual code. So, you're not surprised that this Om page has an extensive section called "Examples", right? https://www.om-language.com/#language__examples__
I didn't scroll that far, and I shouldn't have to.
Re: The Om Programming Language
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Can you please not post shallow dismissals of other people's work? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . They also ask you not to be snarky. Nasty swipes like this routinely get upvoted, and then we end up with them at the top of a thread, choking out everything HN is supposed to be for. (I've downweighted it now.)
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