Author here. I imagine that anyone with an even passing familiarity with the legendary “To Mock a Mockingbird” will recognize the inspiration for the title of this essay.
I second the recommendation to look into Joy. I wrote about combinators and concatenative languages a while ago, in “Finding Joy in Combinators:”
Well, I’d say that I’m a typical hobbyist. I find something, plsy with it, share my enthusiasm, and so on, but I rarely go really deep.
So comments like yours are excellent because:
1. They mention things that I might know, but didn’t mention in this post, which points other readers in new directions, and;
2. They go deeper than I’ve gone, so even if I know the general thing, I still learn something.
I second the recommendation to look into Joy. I wrote about combinators and concatenative languages a while ago, in “Finding Joy in Combinators:”
https://github.com/raganwald-deprecated/homoiconic/blob/mast...
Factor is another concatenative language worth a look.