2025-01-01
The Joy Programming Language - Joy: Forth’s Functional Cousin (2001), transcript (?) of a conference presentation. Nice. Joy is like a tweaked Forth designed to be more … mathematically pure? Reducing the entire language to two operations, concatenation and quotation. I dunno. Languages in this family seem like good candidates for learning a new way to think about problems. Forth —> (Joy, Factor, (Rebol —> Red)). Factor and Red seem like the only two conceivably useful for a new project today. And then Uiua continues to develop.
AI-generated tools can make programming more fun by Geoffrey Litt, echoing comments from Simon Willison: AIs are really good at whipping up UIs for random tasks, and make it both possible and fast to tackle problems that wouldn’t really have been time-cost-effective otherwise. This is something I should try for those diagramming on the web notes.