Re: Stylistic question.

Sorry for the late response, but thanks for the shoutout. I'll also mention that some time ago I put a fair bit of effort into enabling Navigator to behavior-ify any set of controls, automatically extracting their built-in code to script-only-stacks. I did it as part of the migration of Navigator t

Is syntax a dead issue?

On this Hacker News thread , I read this programming interview question . Roughly, the challenge is to count the frequency of words in input, and return a list with counts, sorted from most to least frequent.

Re: Is syntax a dead issue?

As a meta point, I wrote a version closer to the actual requirements -- lowercase everything, process an external input line by line to allow for arbitrary input size. The result is about 8-10x slower than most other languages -- not as bad as I feared, not as good as I hoped. Here's the code for t