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Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by fuzztester »

quesera wrote: post #41
jb1991 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161422

Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by Nevermark »

I like how it unifies the operation stream with the stack (by pushing outputs back into the operation stream to process next).

An even simpler model than Forth, which evaluates an operation stream, with words that operate on a stack. And as noted, this makes recursion trivial.

Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by fourthark »

fud101 wrote: post #55
dirk94018 wrote: post #49

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.

There have been a few.

Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by rramadass »

fuzztester wrote: post #59

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

And therein lies the tragedy of folks exploiting well known culturally loaded symbols/concepts for attention/etc. on the Internet.

For example, I really don't know what to make of this similarly named language; enthusiastic kid or attention-seeking influencer? - https://omlang.com/

Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by unexpectedtrap »

dirk94018 wrote: post #49

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…

So instead of using programming languages designed specifically to effectively express algorithms and data structures, we are going to use natural language like English that is clearly not expressive enough for this? It’s like rewriting a paper about sheaf cohomology in plain English without any mathematical notation and expecting it to be accessible to everyone.

Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by fuzztester »

rramadass wrote: post #65
fuzztester wrote: post #59

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

And therein lies the tragedy of folks exploiting well known culturally loaded symbols/concepts for attention/etc. on the Internet. For example, I really don't know what to make of this similarly named language; enthusiastic kid or attention-seeking influencer? - https://omlang.com/

people exploit anything for attention/etc. on the Internet.
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