From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2009-02-23T23:40:56+09:00 Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Martin DeMello wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:42 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > wrote: >> >> But yeah, who the heck needs another language that's poorly thought out, >> when Factor, Joy, Eiffel, Dylan, and dozens of other well-thought-out >> languages burst on the scene and drifted into oblivion? And why not >> Fortress? > > I think Joy, at least, is *influential* - language designers seem to > pay attention to it, even if users don't. Joy and Factor are essentially dialects of Forth that attempt to add some elegance and a functional language perspective. IMHO neither one of them is as elegant and practical as the RPL language HP put into the HP-28, 48 and 49 calculators. If you're going to make a reverse Polish language, RPL is the way to do it. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.