User talk:GordonCharlton

Quackery

I'm a huge concatenative language nerd and Quackery is the most unique take on one I've seen in a long time. Ancillary stacks are a real neat abstraction. They pretty much stand in for locals, globals, dynamic scoping, and well, ancillary stacks. And probably even structs with just a few more words. The metaflow operators are like nothing I've ever seen before. The most unique thing about the language in my view is how nests do themselves by default, and a lot of words look at them from ahead instead of behind. I guess that's where the Lisp influence seeps through.

I'm impressed that you released an entire book alongside the language. I read it from cover to cover and thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope you don't mind if I take a stab at some of the tasks here on Rosetta Code in Quackery from time to time! :) Feel free to point out anything silly I do on my talk page.

As an aside, I got it running on Windows no problem. --Chunes (talk) 12:15, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Wow! That's the nicest thing anyone has said to me in a long while. If we ever meet IRL I may have to hug you. Yes, please do some tasks in Quackery. I'd love to see how someone else codes in the language.

Perhaps you could help me out - at the moment I'm replying to you by editing the page and typing the "Gordon Charlton ... ... date and time" at the end by hand. I guess there must be a better way?

PS. Thank you for creating a "tasks not implemented" for Quackery. I couldn't figure out how to do that. :-)

--GordonCharlton (talk) 16:01, 24 January 2021 (UTC)