Hackers' Pub

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

4/19/2025, 3:22:29 PM

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I have now created three languages along the theme of "what would it be like if we made our programming languages aggressively simple?" and every time the answer has turned out to be "it would be very complicated" https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114365307342990008

mcc (@mcc@mastodon.social)

So one of the unusual solutions I have created to one of the unusual problems my new language has is that every array, every array ever created by the language, now remembers what line of code it was created on forever¹, because the language doesn't yet have an a priori way of knowing which arrays might later become functions and it *might* be needed for error messages ¹ Oddly, due to another questionable decision I made, this doesn't result in any additional memory usage

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