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[–] mykl@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just posted a solution in Uiua, which is also probably equally terrible, but if you squint you can see some similarities in our approaches.

[–] corristo@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I haven't heard of Uiua before, but I can read some things :D I like the idea of rotating the vector instead of manually padding it with the required number of leading zeroes!

[–] mykl@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I think it's only a few months old. I've enjoyed playing with it because it allows me to use stack manipulation as an alternative to combinators and every symbol has a fixed arity both of which make it feel a lot more accessible to me.

I was very pleased with myself when I thought of that rotation trick :-)