On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:25 PM, john skaller <skal...@users.sourceforge.net
> wrote:
>
> On 11/01/2013, at 6:07 AM, Dobes Vandermeer wrote:
>
> > As usual it all boils down to confusion about definitions of terms.
> Terms like dynamisms leave the mouth (or keyboard) with one meaning and
> arrive with another. Here's a pretty good definition from Wikipedia:
> >
> > Dynamic programming language is a term used broadly in computer science
> to describe a class of high-level programming languages that execute at
> runtime many common behaviors that other languages might perform during
> compilation, if at all. These behaviors could include extension of the
> program, by adding new code, by extending objects and definitions, or by
> modifying the type system, all during program execution.
> >
> > Take note that "static" languages like Felix, C++, OCaml, and Haskell do
> not readily facilitate runtime modification of the program itself, whereas
> "dynamic" languages like LISP, Smalltalk, Javascript, Groovy, Lua and so on
> can dynamically load new modules, classes, functions, and data structures.
>
> Felix can load plugins. The webserver does it right now.
> The colourisers are loaded dynamically. Even the fdoc scanner
> and heading controller are plugins.
>
When communicating with others, it is their definition of words that
matters, not yours. I'm sure you can argue technicalities like this, but
it's just a way of saying "You're wrong, I'm right, nah nah nah !"
"Dynamic language" and "scripting language" are not rigorously defined
categories, they're fuzzy categories that people fit things into based on
their past experience with things that had those labels. People won't use
your definition of these terms and relatively few will take the time to
argue with you about it.
You can always go ahead and call Felix whatever you want - a space ship, a
banana, or a transcendental meditation technique. But that won't help
newcomers set appropriate expectations for understand what Felix is good
for, and if they want to use it for their future projects.
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