Uiua — an extremely terse programming langauge
3mon 20d ago by programming.dev/u/moonpiedumplings in programming@programming.dev from www.uiua.org
Sample with fibonacci:
Looks like a write-only language to me.
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%20Argument%20Manipulation#-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.
Jesus, it's like someone took Brainfuck way too seriously.
I mean kinda, yea … “brainfuck but good actually” Is probably a succinct way of putting the idea.
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.
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.
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.
Looks like an interesting project, but I can't understand what's the advantage of using weird symbols.
Mostly so that all the built in keywords, control flow, and standard library are all "one character"
google APL