It does :) It's CP/M commands(era, ren, etc..) except they work in postfix instead of infix.
sph 12 hours ago [-]
Great work as usual.
I wish I were half as productive as Devine Lu Linvega. Perhaps I should get a sailboat and spend my time hacking without distraction, but I am not a fan of the seas.
Nevertheless an interesting idea. Unix pipes are basically concatenative, I've often thought how much mileage you could get out of going more in this direction.
Having said that. This has a lot of forth in it. (Dup, over, rot) I'm not sure the forth way, of passing options in the stack would necessarily work so well in a shell.
photios 12 hours ago [-]
> Unix pipes are basically concatenative, I've often thought how much mileage you could get out of going more in this direction.
You might enjoy the "Shell Has a Forth-like Quality" article. It's changed my shell scripting a lot.
It kind of asks "What if we built an OS, but with all data sourced from immutable, append-only logs processed by pure functios?"
Probably not literally realizable right now, but IMHO, the closer we can get, the better
avadodin 13 hours ago [-]
You could easily make CUNIX by starting with a log containing the state of a PDP11 at boot and a pure function which appends ignore previous input and the next PDP11 state to it.
f47204 17 hours ago [-]
maybe I am dumb, but I don't really get how this is different to just piping between commands?
ux266478 4 hours ago [-]
It's more than just a grammar. But specifically on that note, I'm assuming you know a POSIX Shell language. Spend some time with Forth and ask yourself if these are experientially the same thing.
Equifinality is extremely misleading.
13 hours ago [-]
mtdewcmu 13 hours ago [-]
Looks like the hardware this runs on has only 64 KB RAM.
I wish I were half as productive as Devine Lu Linvega. Perhaps I should get a sailboat and spend my time hacking without distraction, but I am not a fan of the seas.
Nevertheless an interesting idea. Unix pipes are basically concatenative, I've often thought how much mileage you could get out of going more in this direction.
Having said that. This has a lot of forth in it. (Dup, over, rot) I'm not sure the forth way, of passing options in the stack would necessarily work so well in a shell.
You might enjoy the "Shell Has a Forth-like Quality" article. It's changed my shell scripting a lot.
https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/01/13.html
Probably not literally realizable right now, but IMHO, the closer we can get, the better
Equifinality is extremely misleading.