This week: editing functions https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2min-2020-12-06 Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/mu

@Robbie Gleichman here’s an example of marshaling functions that are in scope for the user on the left side, and displaying data as you edit it

These demos are so cool! I'm really new to stack languages, have you written bigger programs in any stack language? What are your pros & cons about them?

Yeah, me too. I reluctantly backed into postfix because I wanted the order a computer computes a program in to track the order a human reads a program in. That would help show intermediate results and reduce the need for the human to "play computer". Neither infix nor prefix have this property, and I wanted to stick with a single dimension so that programs continued to stay dense. I also was trying to come up with a clean HLL that can also double as a shell for the Mu computer, so people don't have to learn more than 3 languages to browse all the code for the computer. Postfix feels like a good fit for shell languages since you can add operations to a command as you think of them. The big con was the lack of variable names in postfix functions. I feel like I've resolved that fairly satisfactorily. Thank you!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!