2026-01-08 00:25:19 <KipIngram   > Well, he was rolling in profit at the time.  We grew that company's revenue 50% a year every year for like 6-7 years, until the 2001 tech downturn poked a hole in the whole information economy.
2026-01-08 02:18:45 <rendar      > in my forth i have blocks like `if-true word1 else word2 end` and i define new words such as `def hello dup 2 * end`
2026-01-08 02:18:47 <rendar      > thoughts?
2026-01-08 10:54:34 <MrMobius    > Just curious, why `if-true` instead of `if`?
2026-01-08 11:22:27 <jackdaniel  > what if if is false then? :)
2026-01-08 18:44:06 <KipIngram   > Then you say 0= if.
2026-01-08 18:44:24 <KipIngram   > And why def instead of : and end instead of ; ?
2026-01-08 18:46:31 <KipIngram   > If I were going to define if-true and if-false, I'm sure I'd call them 0!=? and 0=? or something like that.  I use conditional returns these days and do call them 0=; and 0!=;
2026-01-08 18:46:40 <KipIngram   > I like terse code.
2026-01-08 18:47:14 <KipIngram   > So you can guess which side of the "APL symbols" vs. "APL words" argument.
2026-01-08 21:51:09 <crc         > I've started implementing conditional returns, but haven't really used them much in my current system
2026-01-08 22:01:50 <CORDIC      > Lisp (including Haskell) has when, unles, while, and until for rhyming.  W/Short-circuit_evaluation .
2026-01-08 22:02:57 <CORDIC      > It has looping constructs for the same reason.  Early returns, exceptions.