Re: Concatenative Programming was( help with naming convention)

["Peter Sommerfeld" <lua@...>]

Patrick Mc(avery wrote:
> I have fallen in love with the concatenative programming paradigm.I  
> spent a month with the Factor language.

Indeed an interesting language...

> So I was thinking, do we have to have another language for this?

Lua is well suited for domain specific languages or playing
with different paradigms. Eduardo Ochs has bootstrapped a
Forth in 40 line of Lua (see "Lua programming gems").

> factor has about 26K  function(words actually). These tinyfunctioncan be  
> used to build other tiny functions veryquickly but againwithout a naming  
> convention it becomes veryhard to follow along with.

Factor has introspection facilities. I don't like the idea
of prefixing everything. Why write math.floor() if floor()
will do ? One table lookup more. Of course, it depends on...

Peter