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Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by quesera »

jb1991 wrote: post #16
bittermandel wrote: post #6

I confused this with https://github.com/omcljs/om

Yeah Om was an extremely widely used Clojurescript library many years ago (maybe still is), and to me that's what this word will always refer to.

I think Hinduism might have a prior claim.

Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by dented42 »

robotresearcher wrote: post #12
jwilber wrote: post #10

Will never not complain about languages not giving code examples. It’s like writing a charting/UI/style library and showing no examples. Just what?

You overlooked the examples. They might not satisfy you, but there are examples.

To be fair, the examples are extremely easy to overlook. They are also, to put it delicately, not the most helpful.

Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by lgas »

einpoklum wrote: post #29
crystal_revenge wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's clearly a language designed for people interested in programming languages. Plenty of straightforward examples to show what makes this language interesting/different/worth your time. But if you're incurious about things that aren't immediately practical (which has sadly been a growing number of HN community in more recent years), you will probably not be interested. In an era when so much "practical" coding can…

> In an era when so much "practical" coding can be offloaded to an LLM I see what you did there with the parentheses.

Turned them into quotation marks?

Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by oblio »

johnisgood wrote: post #38
oblio wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No, it needs a 5 line code snippet above the fold.

Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by oblio »

leephillips wrote: post #27
codegeek wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would at least update body tag to add basic css to make this more readable:

There is nothing wrong with the site as it is. The text reflows, so you can size your window to any width that you find comfortable. With a decent window manager this is just a few keystrokes at most.

A huge chunk of people don't have, want or care about a "decent window manager" (and many of them are competent developers) and they'll just bail.

Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by dstanko »

dented42 wrote: post #43
robotresearcher wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You overlooked the examples. They might not satisfy you, but there are examples.

To be fair, the examples are extremely easy to overlook. They are also, to put it delicately, not the most helpful.

apparently fold example is very helpful to some.

Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by dstanko »

keeganpoppen wrote: post #28
jwilber wrote: post #10

Will never not complain about languages not giving code examples. It’s like writing a charting/UI/style library and showing no examples. Just what?

if it's something you do 100% of the time, is it really adding any information to the world?

absolutely does! for a new language that no one has heard of, it is essential that examples make at least a parallel with other languages. providing examples for mundane things is very useful to build the understanding with the reader who hasn't been writing a paper on OM language.

Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by dirk94018 »

Aren't LLMs supposed to write machine code directly, no more programming languages at all, any day now? Joking aside, programming languages are a good mental exercise. Forth was my first language after assembly. Didn't like the stack juggling and ended up using its macro assembler more and more, it became something else, conventions over code I suppose, like what to keep in registers. Forth (and Unix) got the composability requirement right, the testing of individual units.
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