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      Am I the only who read the title as “… is pointless”? :-)

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        You’re not alone. I read that too.

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      The age of functional programming will soon be over.

      How can it be over before it has come?

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        It is a literary device meant to convey that the writer is writing to us from the future. The name of the project itself is a play on the term point free programming where the majority of values are they themselves calls to functions, this(is(),an(),example(extreme())).

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          I’m not sure your example really conveys the idea explained in the Wikipedia article you linked to. Point-free programming is not just about many function calls, but the composition of partially applied curried functions. If we have a function

          doubleListItems xs = map (\x -> x * 2) xs
          

          the point-free version of this would be

          doubleListItems = map (* 2)
          

          The second version doesn’t mention any arguments, it merely composes functions.

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          Thanks. I didn’t even know I’m (an occasional) point-free programmer :-)

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      I’m learning F# now, I’m practicing with Exercism exercises (they provide tests and exercise description). One exercise is a simple Forth (subset). After skimming this article (only superficially, as I had a pretty long day) I found some aspects similar to my solution.

      I share it if anybody might be interested. Feedback is welcome, but keep in mind, it is practise, not meant to be fast/efficient/optimal/user friendly. Actually it has no shell/repl.

      https://gist.github.com/kodfodrasz/d9a8054d6d5d86ff5a2687d51150f02d

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        I don’t know anything about F#, so I can’t give much feedback, but it looks neat! I can see some similarities to the Pointless code. Thanks for sharing!

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        I’ve been doing exercism for Elixir and I am really looking forward to the Forth problem. It seems like it’ll be fun and I really want to see what the community solutions look like.

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        Where’s the return stack, or the dictionary? The immediate time macros? Memory?

        It’s very cool, but it’s just a stack computer. Forth at a minimum is a two stack language.

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          a simple Forth (subset)

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            But it’s only technically a subset of Forth. It’s a stack machine that processes generic stack machine instructions, with a forth-inspired word definition mechanism. Forth is : forth stacks blocks words ; (little in-joke there). It doesn’t even have an address/return stack!

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      (just a total side-note on the site: You might not want to add the <header> to the <main> body, because otherwise it gets rendered in the (Firefox) reader view.

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        Good call, thanks!

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