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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> ruby-talk
ruby-talk
Re: Reasonable practice?
by Trans other posts by this author
Jun 18 2007 6:53AM messages near this date
Re: Reasonable practice? | Re: Reasonable practice?
On Jun 17, 3:27 pm, SonOfLilit <sonofli...@[...].com>  wrote:
>  Wow, you're meddling in some pretty interesting things here. I don't
>  think Ruby is that fit for them, however.
> 
>  Forth is a language without arguments. You just have a stack shared by
>  all. It's elegant as hell and I love it, and it's first on my list of
>  things to meddle with seriously.
> 
>  Forth code looks like this:
> 
>  : fib-iter ( n -- f ) ( things in braces are comments )
>    0 1 rot 0 ?do over + swap loop drop ;
> 
>  Here's an explanation:http://en.literateprograms.org/Fibonacci_numbers_(Forth)#chunk%20def
:...

Does my FORTH love show thru? ;D

Yes, I very much love that language, and have secret plans to
rendezvous with her again one day.

>  Ask Ed Borasky. He's very enthusiastic about it.
> 
>  Your later ideas sound to me a bit like Haskell monads, of which I've
>  read a very good explanation recently that I've forgot the link for
>  (there's a whole industry of trying to explain what monads are).

When it comes to monads, I got as far as Leibnitz and from what I've
read since I think that might be wise ;)

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