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Re: The Om Programming Language

#51

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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.

Absolutely agree. But fairness precludes denying the existence of examples.

They are not prominent, but they are in a section with the heading 'Examples'.

Re: The Om Programming Language

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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…

One time, this annoyed me so much that I made a website. https://anaminus.github.io/langding/ om would fall under "Yes, must scroll".

Fascinating! It almost seems like the more popular a language is the less likely it is to have syntax on the landing page.

Re: The Om Programming Language

#55

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 composa…

I'm still waiting to see the first show HN I made a language designed for LLMs to write programs better.

Re: The Om Programming Language

#56

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One time, this annoyed me so much that I made a website. https://anaminus.github.io/langding/ om would fall under "Yes, must scroll".

Fascinating! It almost seems like the more popular a language is the less likely it is to have syntax on the landing page.

Popular languages don’t have to sell themselves anymore. No one goes to rust or pythons website to see if they would enjoy the syntax

Re: The Om Programming Language

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post #55

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 composa…

I'm still waiting to see the first show HN I made a language designed for LLMs to write programs better.

It came up a few weeks ago already, can't find the link

Re: The Om Programming Language

#60

Let's have more programming language posts (even about "retro" ones like Icon, SNOBOL, Bliss, MUMPS, etc.), guys. And less about AI topics. Om. https://emojipedia.org/om https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om

if everyone on HN started downvoting all the AI posts (atleast the slop ones) it would cut down submissions by half
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