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The Misty Programming Language

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Re: The Misty Programming Language

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Post by mratsim »

After saying that it's a dynamic general-purpose, actor language, the introduction talks about spacing style, comment style, naming and purity.

That's very lackluster. Show me a Fizzbuzz or an advent of code. Tell me a story of why it exists.

Now the only discussion I can have is why are there no reserved words and can we call our functions and variables "set", "call" and "def" then?

Re: The Misty Programming Language

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Post by havercosine »

Overall there's very little to understand from the page in terms of motivation, sample examples etc. But, one interesting thing: The math module allows choosing between radians, degrees and more importantly cycles. I only know of one more project, Pico8 fantasy console, which offers this correct "API" for trigonometry.

Re: The Misty Programming Language

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Post by vidarh »

mratsim wrote: post #3

After saying that it's a dynamic general-purpose, actor language, the introduction talks about spacing style, comment style, naming and purity. That's very lackluster. Show me a Fizzbuzz or an advent of code. Tell me a story of why it exists. Now the only discussion I can have is why are there no reserved words and can we call our functions and variables "set", "call" and "def" then?

And makes syntax choices (strictness of spacing that forces verbosity) that instantly guarantees that I will never consider the language.

Re: The Misty Programming Language

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Post by 082349872349872 »

Turing_Machine wrote: post #4

Willing to at least look at it, given that it's Crockford. On first glance, I like the patterns. It's long past time that regex got replaced with something that looks less like line noise from an old dialup modem.

I worked on a Java codebase a while ago that had identifiers which were longer than 80 characters. Perfectly fine in our era of huge display bandwidth, but once upon a time, those identifiers would not have fit on a full-width display without wrapping; at an even earlier time one would have waited a noticeable amount of time for them to print out on a TTY.

(and an earlier HN thread suggested that even in our era, those with vision problems who bump display magnification may not appreciate 80-character idents)

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