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Avelon: Turing complete, functional language with concatenative combinators

77 pointsby jxubalmost 7 years ago

8 comments

nickpsecurityalmost 7 years ago
The build-up-from-little-pieces style of Forth meets the terseness of the APL family in this functional, programming language. That's my impression. I don't use any of those, though. I recognize author from Lambda the Ultimate. I emailed him to see if he wants to tell us more about this.
nine_kalmost 7 years ago
A comparison with [Factor] would be very welcome.<p>[Factor]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;factorcode.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;factorcode.org&#x2F;</a>
CuriousSkepticalmost 7 years ago
Make sure to checkout the blog <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;awelonblue.wordpress.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;awelonblue.wordpress.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;</a> It has been a source of much inspiration to me for many years.
tombertalmost 7 years ago
So, as a complete noob with stuff like Forth and other concatenative stuff, can someone explain why they&#x27;d use it, and how something like Avelon would be cool?<p>I&#x27;ve read a bit about being able to avoid generating garbage, but I have to admit a bit of ignorance to what that actually means.
rhackeralmost 7 years ago
The github page seems to be calling it Awelon not Avelon
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carapacealmost 7 years ago
Reminds me a bit of Joy[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joy_(programming_language)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joy_(programming_language)</a>
cubanoalmost 7 years ago
Could someone please inform me...under what domain does such abstract esoteric language make programming either easier or more efficient?
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jameskegelalmost 7 years ago
Awelon, not Avelon.