Re: "The Best Programming Language for the End of the World"

On 27/04/2025 7:36 pm, Hans Bezemer wrote:

On 26-04-2025 04:37, dxf wrote:

On 26/04/2025 2:34 am, Hans Bezemer wrote:

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Yeah, I have helped to make a proposal for PLACE and +PLACE - which never even made it to the voting stage.

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It's a nice symmetry.  OTOH the remaining vendors use APPEND and why should they change?
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Yes, it has symmetry with ! and +!, TO and +TO - that's why I like it (plus APPEND is already taken in 4tH for signalling file append mode ;-)
 
Why should they change it? Well, it has just become *THE STANDARD.*
 
Poor man's solution : +PLACE APPEND ;
Hans' solution:       AKA APPEND +PLACE
ANS 2012 solution:    SYNONYM +PLACE APPEND

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