Hi, On Nov 21, 2007 7:28 AM, Jason Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you looked around at other programming languages because many > already do what you want. I'm not really aware what progress has been > made on the graphical programming front, but declarative languages > (e.g. Haskell) go a long way toward removing unnecessary cruft like > bounds checking. There is a great deal of information out there on > what makes programmers productive, it is only the mainstream (e.g. > C/C++/Java/Perl/etc.) that are unaware of it.
Actually, I did look around for non-mainstream languages. I tried Slate (prototypes with multiple dispatch, Smalltalk-like syntax), Maude, Lisp, tried to get used to Haskell syntax (yuck!), couldn't get through Squeak (horribly complicated UI!), and in the end I didn't really find what I wanted. I want the simplicity of Python combined with more power to produce less waste. Maybe I didn't look look well enough, but none of the languages offered anything revolutionary like the capability to easily define specifications/protocols/formats (except for DSLs, like a network protocol description language). It was still hacking, just with slightly less waste. This just doesn't feel right. > I hope this project and the others like it (I seem to find more every > time I search on this subject) succeed in bringing systems programming > up to the level higher level languages have been for decades. It's > time to stop twiddling bits and start building the future. There are more of such projects? I haven't found anything as serious as this one. Bye, Waldemar Kornewald _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
