Show HN: A Lispy, embedded Forth

I strongly believe concatenative languages – particularly statically typed ones – are one paradigm of programming that have not been explored nearly enough. It&#x27;s good to see more activity in this area :)<p>Here&#x27;s another interesting concatenative language in development that I&#x27;m following: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kittenlang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kittenlang.org&#x2F;</a>

That&#x27;s cool! I actually tried something like this myself, but ended up with a less conventional syntax.<p>I&#x27;m not really familiar with Forth, but my impression from writing a little bit of postfix code was that some pattern matching would make e.g. writing a large conditional much easier.

&gt; <i>I&#x27;ve been craving for a trivial, embedded scripting language that feels just right for a long, long time; something I can quickly drop into any project that needs scripting without too much ceremony.</i><p>How are you quickly and casually going to drop in a scripting language into any project, if it requires Common Lisp?<p>Maybe this means &quot;into any CL project&quot;. But why would you need a scripting language in a CL project.

So, serious question: if the property of a concatenative language is the ability to pass outputs to inputs of a function without specifying parameters, could Iolang or Smalltalk also be described as concatenative? Ie:<p><pre><code> Transcript show: &#x27;foo&#x27;; cr. </code></pre> In this case the output of &quot;Transcript show:&quot; is the Transcript object, which is used as the sender for cr.

That is a bit too exciting this early in the morning...

I&#x27;ve been wondering if they called the hp48g&#x27;s forth ui lisp to avoid lawsuits.

actually I&#x27;d like to see a (~16 bit) Forth backend for LLVM... so I don&#x27;t have to &quot;think RPN&quot; myself.<p>just load the binary into serial flash, point the interpreter at it, and of it goes.

reminds me of jvtoups emacs-lisp stacking monad (IIRC)

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