39 pointsby ofalkaed7 hours ago6 comments
  • tobr4 hours ago
    Submitted headline is missing an ’en’.
    • ofalkaed3 hours ago
      Something about that looked wrong but I just could not quite see it. To late to edit.
  • ofalkaed7 hours ago
    The code and details about various versions are available on the homepage which weirdly does not really explain the language.

    http://www.nsl.com/k/xy/xy.htm

    • jasonwatkinspdx3 hours ago
      So this is the blog of Stevan Apter. As you might guess from having a 3 letter vanity domain, he and this website have been around a long long time. It's mostly code golf style stuff posted to the J Software and Concatenative Languages lists. So yeah it'll be terse and obscure outside that community.

      The domain name stands for No Stinkin' Loops, a reference to how APL style languages lift iteration to combinator expressions.

      • ofalkaed3 hours ago
        I did not know any of that, did not even consider if it was a vanity domain but did briefly wonder if nsl was the domain for some small country. I think the homepage does a good job of covering everything we need to know and in someways does a better job, but this posting provides a better overview for a HN submission. I included the homepage since some would probably skim the post or only read as much as they need to get the idea and miss the note at the bottom, someone would have probably posted asking where the code was.

        Thanks for the background info.

  • volemo5 hours ago
    This helped me finally grok continuations!
  • zabzonk2 hours ago
    So, basically a less-readable Forth?
  • jaberjaber236 hours ago
    interesting mix of k and joy. the queue manipulation primitives like -> and => have no equivalent in joy, lets you do things like call/cc in a few lines
  • wosined6 hours ago
    Interesting. But looks like assembler and more complicated.