Stanford Seminar - Concatenative Programming: From Ivory to Metal

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as the best talk on concatenative languages and their mathematical properties.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Stanford Online

Topic

concatenative programming

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2022

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From the original HN conversations

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• I didn't see it linked from the article, Jon Purdy has a great talk about this too: "Concatenative Programming: From Ivory to Metal" (2017) [VIDEO] There's also "A Conversation with Manfred von Thun" [LINK] which is worth reading (IMO) if you're interested in concatenative languages. …

• I don't know if it's Baader-Meinhof or what, but I'm seeing concatenative languages all over the place now. Which is great, because now I'm planning to write my own! My gut says that a concatenative language could be ideal for competitive programming, where you want …

• Hear, hear! Wise words from the genius who created Turing Drawings. It's becoming more and more important to treat complexity as a kind of technical debt that has the potential at any moment to metastasize into eldritch horror. I've been playing with what you could …