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ubertaco
Finally, a scripting language that captures the essence of Windows as much as Perl captures the essence of Linux.
zokier
Wouldn't it make more sense to try to use something Lispy as your base, encoding sexprs into folder structure, considering that sexprs afaik can already be considered trees.
ape4
And then make an OS out of it.
Slackwise
The fact that this is not Lispy is more surprising than the concept itself.
kazinator
One problem is is that #1=(a . #1#) would panic the kernel and require a full fsck.
ape4
A breakthrough! For the Linux version they can use extended file (folder) attributes.
paulhodge
Funny that they chose to use Github for it, considering that Git doesn't let you store empty folders :)
dimitar
They use .gitignore to fill them.
bonif
Gonna use it for my new startup ! Is there a SPA framework ?
pierrec
I'm kind of disappointed that the folder names actually have to contain the code. From the title, I got the wild phantasm of a language entirely encoded into folder structure - ignoring their names completely. Maybe it would be "Pure Folders".
bbcbasic
I love that idea, as you could polyglot it inside something mundane like the assets folder of a website.
rottytooth
I like that idea too (I'm the developer), but it does mean that string data would be an enormous number of folders
detaro
Symlinks for e.g. jumps would be a fun addition. Or use overlay file systems for even stranger tricks.
[dead] freedombeer
Whilst I admire the potential and bravado, I despair at the naivety and the fall into typical abscure art-lang with overtones of super-wow matrix-talk. You can be abstract, emotive and intangible whilst still seeing a duck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_test and adding value without resorting to exclusive language.