On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 10:09:45AM +1000, Mark Greenaway wrote:
> Although I came to the thread a little late, I was interested to see
> that an issue close to my heart came up, which is operator overloading
> with respect to numeric types. The specific example of date types was
> raised.
> [ ... ]
Check out this very recent (Sep 23rd) post to lambda-the-ultimate,
with lots of good links in the comments:
Is "type" a fundamental intrinsic property of values?
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/33
Also check out Frink:
http://futureboy.homeip.net/frinkdocs/
"Frink is a practical calculating tool and
programming language designed to help us all to
better understand the world around us, to help
us get calculations right without getting bogged
down in the mechanics, and to make a tool that's
really useful in the real world."
I think a language like this has occurred to most of us
over time, but few of us do anything about it :-)
I remember an Mech Eng friend working on such a language
while he was working at BHP. That was about 1985 :-)
I have no idea what became of it.
Matt
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