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Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page (2023, 2024)

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Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page (2023, 2024)

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Concatenative Programming@programming.devEnglish · 1 year ago

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Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page

ratfactor.com

An exploration of the evolution and meaning of the Forth programming language and its context in history.

It covers a lot more than just Forth.

New discussion on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45639250

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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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