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dented42 | 4 days ago

To be fair, the examples are extremely easy to overlook. They are also, to put it delicately, not the most helpful.

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klibertp|4 days ago

The examples are fine for an early-stage poc project like this one. `minutes` with evaluation trace and `[Fold]<-` are illustrative, and if you work them out with pen and paper, you can get a good grasp on the main ideas of the language. That you have to search for them on a page that looks like a slightly-formatted README instead of having a nice scrollable with syntax-highlighted snippets at the top is because this IS a slightly-formatted README - and that's also completely fine at this stage. What's important is that there are a few interesting concepts there and that it was published. Even if this one fizzles, as 99.999% of languages do, that doesn't matter if some other language down the line gets inspired by those concepts.

robotresearcher|4 days ago

Absolutely agree. But fairness precludes denying the existence of examples.

They are not prominent, but they are in a section with the heading 'Examples'.

dstanko|4 days ago

apparently fold example is very helpful to some.