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Stanford Seminar - Concatenative Programming: From Ivory to Metal

Stanford Online · talk · Watch on YouTube

Programming language designFunctional programmingUniversity lectures & courses

What it is

Jon Purdy's Stanford EE380 seminar giving an overview of concatenative programming, from function composition theory and history down to low-level implementation and correctness benefits.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as the best talk on concatenative languages and their mathematical properties.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Jon Purdy has a great talk about this too”

    Great talk by Jon Purdy on concatenative programming.

    carapace, 2022-07 · Strong recommendation · in “Why concatenative programming matters (2012)”

  2. “Here's a talk I watched recently describing some of the neat mathematical properties of concatenative languages”

    Describes mathematical properties of concatenative languages.

    nemo1618, 2020-01 · Recommendation · in “Factor: A Practical Stack Languge”

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Topics: concatenative languages, stack languages, function composition, type systems, jon purdy

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