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{lambda talk} a dialect of the λ-calculus

1 2018-11-05 00:27

{lambda talk} tries to be the simplest and most coherent programmable programming language which can be built, as a bridge between the terce λ-calculus and the widely used JavaScript.

http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdaspeech/?view=start

2 2018-11-05 03:04

>>1
I vaguely remember seeing this somewhere before. It looks a lot better now.
Are you the author?

3 2018-11-05 07:04 *

>>3
No I'm not the author, I found it interesting and shared.

4 2021-01-18 06:32

Thank you.
Alain Marty

5 2021-01-18 17:32

Why use those ugly {} instead of the beautiful ()?

6 2021-01-18 23:27 *

>>5
You absolute plebeian, use []!

7 2021-01-23 01:12

He doesn't use `'

`define `gcd a b'
  `let ``r `modulo a b'''
     `if `= 0 r'
         b
         `gcd b r''''
'''
Just look at how terse, how elegant. You get rid of the lots of irritating silly parentheses.
Problem is with quote and quasi-quote.I suggest HELL:α and FUCKING-HELL:α for 'α and `α respectively.

8 2021-01-23 01:15

>>7
MAMMA MIA I fucked up with the formatting, I have brought shame to my clan.

9 2021-01-23 02:32 *

>>8
Rip in pepperoni brotha.

10 2021-01-23 16:18

>>7,8
That's it, thread dead.

11 2021-01-23 22:17

>>7
What language is that? is it m4?

12 2021-01-24 11:06

>>11
its LITHP++ a more readable LITHP

13 2021-03-30 11:13

Because {} are rarely used in standard texts, contrary to () and [], and because texts in lambdatalk are written without any escaping characters like " or '. For instance you can write 1+2 is equal to {+ 1 2} to get 1+2 is equal to 3, something you can't do in other langauges, as far as I know.

alain marty

14 2021-03-30 11:17

In 13 I was answering to 5 and 6

I would be happy if somebody could give me his opinion about this work : http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdaspeech/, beyond the relevance or not of the choice of braces. Thank you.

Alain Marty

15 2021-03-30 15:25

>>13,14
Hi Alain.
You can quote posts with two "more-than" signs followed by the post number. Lambdaspeech looks like the ultimate sexp-code (which also used braces for the same reason)
https://corebloc.neocities.org/sexpcode.html

I guess the choice of hosting {lambda talk} on top of PHP was because of PHP's ubiquity in cheap hosting plans?

16 2021-04-11 13:36

> 15

Yes, this is why I choose PHP, even if I don't love PHP. When I was a teacher in a school of architecture I was able to open wikis for every students in a french host provider (www.free.fr) kind enough to give a free access to a PHP runtime to anybody opening a free email.

I was not aware of sexpcode. Thank you for the link. I'am going to analyze it and compare to lambdatalk with which I can write easily and in a consistent way readable web pages with active code, and explore and share lots of algorithms, for instance:

- http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=fromroots2canopy
- http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=reduce

Thank you for your interest.

Alain Marty
(marty.alain@free.fr)

17 2021-04-14 09:33

This looks pretty nice

Recently, I have been using Parser3 for webpages. I feel I was quite lucky to stumble across this as it is a nicely well made language with extensive features but mostly unknown outside of Russia it seems. There is only 1 video about it on youtube that I have found.

https://www.parser.ru/en/

18 2021-04-17 18:16

>>17
Russian spyware? No. Thanks.

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