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> I really want to try making a language that is imperative, like really imperative, where every line must start with a verb, just to see what it would look like.

It would look like Tcl.

AlienRobot 4 days ago [ - ]

A bit but I don't like "set foo 32"

One way I think I can get rid of that is like this

    32 = foo;

But why do we even need variables? I think the perfect language design would be if you could just do this:

    pow(x, 2);
    pow(y, 2);
    sqrt() = result;

And maybe you could do this

    {
        pow(x, 2);
        pow(y, 2);
        sqrt();
    } + 1;
    pow(2) = result;

Instead of result = pow(sqrt(pow(x, 2), pow(y, 2)) + 1, 2); that we have today.

tonymillion 4 days ago [ - ]

At that point you’re almost, but not quite into the realm of “forth”