On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Casey Ransberger <[email protected]> wrote: > > Isn't Nile kind of like a "read-also" APL?
I think you're referring to Nial. See also J and K. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language) > On Jun 5, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Florin Mateoc <[email protected]> wrote: > > But wasn't APL called a "write-only language", which would make it in a way > a polar opposite of Smalltalk? > > I agree that it is not about "consequences of message sending". And, while I > also agree that uniformity/simplicity are also virtues, I think it is more > useful to explicitly state that there are "things" which are truly > different. Especially in an object system which models the world. Numbers > would be in that category, they "deserve" to be treated specially. In the > same vein, I think mathematical operators "deserve" special treatment, and > not just from an under the covers, optimization point of view. > > Thank you, > Florin > > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
