On stack-based languages (was: on Perl)

John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> writes:

On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 07:34:41 +0200
Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> wrote:
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Really? It is a very small language and has almost no syntax.
I thought it was one of the easiest languages toe learn ib comparison
to C++ or Java.

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*Syntactically* it's very simple, but explicit stack-orientation with
reverse-Polish notation is a *very* different programming paradigm than
practically everything else out there; even Lisp is closer to "normal,"
at least for functional-programming types.

That was my impression also, when I played around with "factor",

  https://factorcode.org/

a modern take on Forth, some years back. Kind of opposite of Lisp: no
parentheses, post-fix. I liked many of the ideas and concepts when
reading about them, but it was awfully difficult for a (historically
imperatively minded) hobby programmer to wrap my head around them and
even get trivial exercises done. Fascinating, though.

Best regards

Axel