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16:10:15
pjb
lisbeths: you can also have a use for operators like swap and tuck in PN and in lisp. See Bachus's article about functional programming.
17:48:37
lisbeths
I think that having operations like swap and tuck and all this not only make the system more complicated and difficult to read but are inferior to having a tree-like structure like how lisp or like how c code blocks have
17:49:19
lisbeths
I have fallen for the concatenative meme for a long time but I just don't buy yet that it is the best system for writing programs with combinators
17:50:02
lisbeths
what I am implying still has a tree-like structure only in order to read the tree you have to know how many arguments each function takes and this forces you to read your own code
17:50:18
lisbeths
it punishes you for having code that's millions of lines where you don't know what anything does
17:50:56
lisbeths
furthermore I think that with the syntax I have described it may be possible to create a function that is a working left parentheses and a working right parentheses made out of combinators