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⍥◡+9∩1 is the fibonacci in this language

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[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Jesus, it's like someone took Brainfuck way too seriously.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

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.