On 11/01/2013, at 8:53 AM, Dobes Vandermeer wrote:
>
> 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.
I agree. And Felix is (intended as) a scripting language.
In terms of rapid prototyping, easy of use.
Perhaps I'm wrong but for me a scripting language is one where
you just write some code in a text file and execute it.
That's always how I used Tcl, Python, and other languages
like Perl (which I never used much but worked the same),
Lua, etc.
The point I make in the article is that:
dynamic typing != dynamic language
In fact I argue it is completely the other way around.
Dynamic language requires static typing.
I doubt my terminology is that different, perhaps it is a bit
coloured by a longer experience in the industry than most
others.
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john skaller
skal...@users.sourceforge.net
http://felix-lang.org
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