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John Earnest and Versions of k
The Array Cast
Is There a Connection Between Concatenative and Fourth?
Fourth is one of these euclidean ideals of a language that a lot of of random stabs in the design space end up sort of converging towards. In fourth you bend the problem to suit the language and the language to suit the problem in order to try to find a balancing point where the entire system is as simple as possible. It's generally considered to be a pretty low level language although you can build it up for specific applications. Fourth has its own highly distinct style of problem solving centered on this idea of radical minimalism. Four asks to be treated about the intimate details of what an application is going to do, just like mod or k does. There are other functional
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