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Theme One Program • Discussion 10
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/04/17/theme-one-program-discussion-10/

Re: Seamus Bradley
• https://web.archive.org/web/20230422200222/https://mathstodon.xyz/@Scmbradley/110198310724722597

❝I thought of a programming language where every function can only return one type: the return type. The return type is just a wrapper around a struct that contains the actual return value, but also a reference to the called function and arguments, and possibly an error code.❞

My flashback —

Way back in the last millennium I started work on a programming style I called an “idea processor”, where an “idea” is a pointer to a “form” and a form is a minimal type of record containing 1 character, 1 number, and 4 more ideas.

I implemented a functional style where all the main functions are transformations of one or more ideas to a return idea. The principal data type is an “idea-form flag” which serves a role analogous to a “cons cell” in #Lisp.

Here's one entry point —

Theme One Program • Exposition 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2022/06/15/theme-one-program-exposition-1-2/

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