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@tomberek – I’m not sure that Flom is intended as a demonstration of the Mill’s cleverness. Rather, my idea was to come up with something that
- is easy to implement on the Mill (Forth’s dual stacks seems problematic),
- is comfortable enough for something like real programming,
- and is amenable to optimisation.
The simple, regular, statically checked type system of Flom (it’s a stripped-down ML) isn’t just expressive, it makes code generation much simpler and the generated code can be much more efficient.