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AndyM to Concatenative ProgrammingEnglish · 1 month ago

An Attempt at a Compelling Articulation of Forth's Practical Strengths and Eternal Usefulness

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An Attempt at a Compelling Articulation of Forth's Practical Strengths and Eternal Usefulness

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AndyM to Concatenative ProgrammingEnglish · 1 month ago
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From Wikipedia:

A concatenative programming language is a point-free computer programming language in which all expressions denote functions, and the juxtaposition of expressions denotes function composition. Concatenative programming replaces function application, which is common in other programming styles, with function composition as the default way to build subroutines.

For example, a sequence of operations in an applicative language like the following:

y = foo(x)
z = bar(y)
w = baz(z)

…is written in a concatenative language as a sequence of functions:

x foo bar baz

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