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Laan Tungir

What would a programming language look like with #ecash as a datatype?

Handling payment should be shoved as far down the stack as possible.

Two fundamental things that need to be paid for in a computer:

- Storage

- Compute

There is also Energy.

Energy is more fundamental than storage and compute. Both storage and compute need energy, however storage and compute need more than just energy. There is extra cost for the arrangement of atoms into information media. I think Storage and Compute cover Energy.

bitpunk.fm is typing 1y ago

Try it out in scheme. For DSLs like this scheme is very good at prototyping language ideas.

If you like prefix notation you don't even have to write any macros.

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Laan Tungir 1y ago

scheme?

bitpunk.fm is typing 1y ago

Yeah, the programming language called scheme. Its a dialect of lisp. Very simple syntax if you can get over the ().

But it's really the ultimate playground for language design. It's a well documented use case if you dig into it. It'd been about 10 years for me since I've seriously done language design like this, but this is what I used.