Re: OT: PL/I was Re: Please welcome . . .

--- Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>
wrote:

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> When I started my current job. I learnt C++ very
> quickly. Has anyone
> created an object-oriented conlang, I wonder?
> (ObConlang)
>
> Pete
An interesting idea.  I did try, about 3 or 4 years
ago, to design an RPN (Reverse Polish Notation)
conlang inspired by the Forth programming language.

Anyone familiar with the early HP pocket calculators
will know what I'm talking about.  The arguments are
placed on a stack and the operators take the arguments
off the stack, placing the reuslt back onto the stack.
 For example, to add 3 and 9 one uses something along
the lines of "3 9 plus".

The idea for an RPN conlang was to stack all the
arguments and then use the verb to gather them
together and create some action, the result of which
is placed back on the stack: "I book red that_is
have".

The sequence "book red" places those two arguments on
the stack and then the operator "that_is" gathers them
toegther and binds "redness" to "book" and puts the
concept of "red+book" back on the stack to be later
consumed by the operator "have".

--gary

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