• maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3 months

    I tried to go through the tutorial a year or so ago.

    I can’t recall when, but there’s a point at which doing something normal/trivial in an imperative language requires all sorts of weirdness in Uiua. But they try to sell it as especially logical while to me they came off as completely in a cult.

    It’s this section, IIRC: https://www.uiua.org/tutorial/More Argument Manipulation#-planet-notation-

    When they declare

    And there you have it! A readable syntax juggling lots of values without any names!

    For

    ×⊃(+⊙⋅⋅∘|-⊃⋅⋅∘(×⋅⊙⋅∘)) 1 2 3 4

    Which, if you can’t tell, is equivalent to

    f(a,b,c,x) = (a+x)(bx-c)

    With arguments 1, 2, 3, 4.

    I wanted to like this, and have always wanted to learn APL or J (clear influences). But I couldn’t take them seriously after that.

      • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3 months

        I mean kinda, yea … “brainfuck but good actually” Is probably a succinct way of putting the idea.

    • Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org
      3 months

      polish notation is fine, but the need to get rid of argument names is beyond me, and i don’t really get the need for the fork-operator, that thing seems redundant.

  • ignirtoq@feddit.onlineEnglish
    3 months

    This looks like someone took regular expressions, expanded them to a full programming language, and used Unicode to deal with the explosion of required symbols. I have a hard enough time reading my own regular expressions. I can’t imagine writing full programs like this.

  • duckythescientist@sh.itjust.works
    3 months

    It’s evaluated right to left, but modifiers are to the left of the functions. I feel like they were specifically trying to be difficult.

  • _Lory98_@discuss.tchncs.de
    3 months

    Looks like an interesting project, but I can’t understand what’s the advantage of using weird symbols.

    • PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world
      3 months

      Mostly so that all the built in keywords, control flow, and standard library are all “one character”