Language in question: https://masatohagiwara.net/recto.html
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- 10 months
Am I missing something or is Recto still inherently linear? Flow control still goes one direction through the rectangles, where as the other 2D languages he points out, Befunge, Fish, and Piet, flow control can change directions. In later versions of Befunge it isn’t even limited to 2D or moving in cardinal directions.
- 10 months
Yeah I don’t really get it either. Even the last picture in the original article, showing a bunch of for loops, is practically one-dimensional. So I don’t get the prime benefit of the idea, to be honest.
- atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish10 months
When you consider what truly defines a language in the modern world, only two criteria stand out:
- Understandable — it must carry meaning for both humans and machines.
- Generable — it must be producible by both humans and machines.
Well, this fails on both counts. That syntax is awful even for the trivial examples provided.