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Would someone mind giving a quick explanation of how this works? I have only used sed to replace text in files and directories. How do people write interpreters and game loops with this unix utility?
I started playing with the idea of making a programming language out of sed at one point, but then I decided that, even if I succeeded, it would be a waste of time.
I didn't take into account Hacker News.
Ahahah. Awesome. There is even an 'awk' version: https://github.com/darius/awklisp
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I wrote that, and I gotta say sed is a much crazier target. More sed fun: http://aurelio.net/projects/sedsokoban/
Indeed. There are few wide-spread programming languages around any more that lack such things as, say, any form of arithmetic whatsoever.
This is amazing. Just reading the code makes my head hurt, but you implemented a language with it.
Here, for example, is the implementation of `atom` (I think): /(atom /{ /\[\S\+\]/{ s/.*/[]/ bpop_context } s/.*/t/ bpop_context }
Would someone mind giving a quick explanation of how this works? I have only used sed to replace text in files and directories. How do people write interpreters and game loops with this unix utility?
If you had to just write programs by running a series of sed substitution expressions to a file over and over, and not use conditionals... it might still be possible to program in. Much harder to think about, though.
Now you have three problems.
To what, I don't know.
Would someone mind giving a quick explanation of how this works? I have only used sed to replace text in files and directories. How do people write interpreters and game loops with this unix utility?
With difficulty. I started playing with the idea of making a programming language out of sed at one point, but then I decided that, even if I succeeded, it would be a waste of time. I didn't take into account Hacker News.
Now you have three problems.
Oh come on. They took an unreadable language and implemented a slightly less unreadable language in it. That's at least two problems and one solution. To what, I don't know.
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Oh come on. They took an unreadable language and implemented a slightly less unreadable language in it. That's at least two problems and one solution. To what, I don't know.
did I misinterpret or did you just call lisp "[nearly] unreadable"? all languages are unreadable for the uninitiated.