/tech/ - Technology

>>12397
>but it used a different data structure than lists (strings maybe?)
Encoding all your data into strings sounds insane. How would that even work?
I'm guessing it was like lisp but used a different syntax not a different data structure. And I'm guessing the main difference was Cyrillic alphabet - not because of some kind of linguistic patriotism or whatever but purely for practical purposes because of the keyboard layout.

>>12400
>Encoding all your data into strings sounds insane. How would that even work?
lel

>>12400
It's pretty common: https://funcall.blogspot.com/2019/12/stringly-typed.html

>>12402
Strings being a base atomic type is not the same as strings being structures.

>>12405
That's an encoding of data external to the program, which then has to parse it into its own internal structure.
From your link:
>JSON is a data encoding and transfer format which has nested structures and arrays, but ultimately builds structure out of string to string mappings.
Here again we have strings as atoms, not as structures. The mapping itself is not "stringly-typed".

>>12408
You missed the point of the article. Try reading it again, this time trying to understand it instead of nitpicking.

>>12397
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refal
Here it is, I found it.

>>12397
>>12432
Damn this is a nice (and rather annoying) language.