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Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

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Re: Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

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Post by tunesmith »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #7
edem wrote: post #2

Why do we need yet another language instead of improving the existing ones?

Your profile says you like tinkering, yet you don't understand why others would tinker and experiment with new things? Do you only give yourself a pass for tinkering instead of using your precious free-time to credentialize in and improve existing software?

Man, I don't know if it's against site guidelines, but I've never liked using people's bios - even if public on HN - as ammunition against their comments. Isn't it better to just respond to the content of the comments themselves?

Re: Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

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Post by ssalka »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #3

I was interested by the title, but it really needs a quick-start + examples in the readme.

Came here to say this. Majority of engineers will bounce immediately once they see there is no code snippets in the README, nor an examples folder.

Re: Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

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Post by gre »

6thaccount2 wrote: post #10
ofrzeta wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Always hoped to create something in Kitten but never got around to it and the development was mostly dead last time I looked at it. You can still use Factor http://factorcode.org/

The creator of Factor left years ago to work on Swift I think. I think it is still maintained, but slow releases.

The "Development release" of Factor is the best version to use. I'll see about releasing point versions more often.

Re: Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

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Post by yellowapple »

32bitkid wrote: post #8

I thought for a second this was a post on Mirth Connect and I had flashbacks to doing hl7 integrations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirth_Connect

Well now it's called NextGen Connect™, so I guess there's no more naming conflict :)

Re: Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

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Post by willtim »

edem wrote: post #2

Why do we need yet another language instead of improving the existing ones?

What language are you going to try and improve? Add static types to Python? Or make Java purely functional? Often one needs to start again. Mirth looks much better than most.

Re: Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

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Post by athenot »

32bitkid wrote: post #8

I thought for a second this was a post on Mirth Connect and I had flashbacks to doing hl7 integrations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirth_Connect

Same here. For a second I wondered if they had produced a new language. :)

Re: Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

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Post by wjsetzer »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #3

I was interested by the title, but it really needs a quick-start + examples in the readme.

I think even beyond that, I didn't see a link to any docs in the readme. It may be cool, but I can't use it if there's nothing to tell me how.

Re: Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

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Post by tomsmeding »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #3

I was interested by the title, but it really needs a quick-start + examples in the readme.

To be frank, the src/ folder is the compiler for Mirth written in Mirth, so there's your example code. However, I do agree that a quick introduction would not be out of place.

Re: Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

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Post by garmaine »

tunesmith wrote: post #11
hombre_fatal wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your profile says you like tinkering, yet you don't understand why others would tinker and experiment with new things? Do you only give yourself a pass for tinkering instead of using your precious free-time to credentialize in and improve existing software?

Man, I don't know if it's against site guidelines, but I've never liked using people's bios - even if public on HN - as ammunition against their comments. Isn't it better to just respond to the content of the comments themselves?

Trying to start from common ground isn’t “ammunition” imho.

Although it depends on how it is phrased of course.

Re: Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

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Post by rickbutton »

tunesmith wrote: post #11
hombre_fatal wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your profile says you like tinkering, yet you don't understand why others would tinker and experiment with new things? Do you only give yourself a pass for tinkering instead of using your precious free-time to credentialize in and improve existing software?

Man, I don't know if it's against site guidelines, but I've never liked using people's bios - even if public on HN - as ammunition against their comments. Isn't it better to just respond to the content of the comments themselves?

There is always a person or two at the bottom of every thread like this that loves to spew hate towards people that like to share interesting side-projects, usually in a "you are wasting your time because your project has no immediate value to ME, go spend it serving my interests instead" sort of way. Claiming to also be a tinkerer in your public bio on the same website is gross, and IMO fair game to point it out.
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