50
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by moonpiedumplings@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

Sample with fibonacci:

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

I mean kinda, yea … “brainfuck but good actually” Is probably a succinct way of putting the idea.

[-] Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

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.

this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2026
50 points (100.0% liked)

Programming

26039 readers
152 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

  • Follow the programming.dev instance rules
  • Keep content related to programming in some way
  • If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev



founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS