I'm kind of disappointed that the folder names actually have to contain the code. From the title, I got the wild phantasm of a language entirely encoded into folder structure - ignoring their names completely. Maybe it would be "Pure Folders".
Folders: a programming language encoded into folder structure
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#12Wouldn't it make more sense to try to use something Lispy as your base, encoding sexprs into folder structure, considering that sexprs afaik can already be considered trees.
One problem is is that #1=(a . #1#) would panic the kernel and require a full fsck.
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#13What is wrong with this website? http://i.imgur.com/mwLQcRg.jpg
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#14I'm kind of disappointed that the folder names actually have to contain the code. From the title, I got the wild phantasm of a language entirely encoded into folder structure - ignoring their names completely. Maybe it would be "Pure Folders".
I love that idea, as you could polyglot it inside something mundane like the assets folder of a website.
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#15I made python version
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyfolders/
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#16What is wrong with this website? http://i.imgur.com/mwLQcRg.jpg
I've got a solution but it involves an old priest and a young priest
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#17Symlinks for e.g. jumps would be a fun addition. Or use overlay file systems for even stranger tricks.
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#18Whilst I admire the potential and bravado, I despair at the naivety and the fall into typical abscure art-lang with overtones of super-wow matrix-talk. You can be abstract, emotive and intangible whilst still seeing a duck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_test and adding value without resorting to exclusive language.
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#19I'm kind of disappointed that the folder names actually have to contain the code. From the title, I got the wild phantasm of a language entirely encoded into folder structure - ignoring their names completely. Maybe it would be "Pure Folders".
I like that idea too (I'm the developer), but it does mean that string data would be an enormous number of folders