> From: Helmut Enck-Radana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> On 10 Aug 2001, at 10:49, Lee Goddard wrote:
>
> > What new concepts have been made manifest in languages that I can
> > use today? I'll try them out.
>
> Seems you are asking 2 questions:
>
> 1. What new concepts have been made manifest in languages?
>
> -> There are a lot of text books, articles and research papers on
> this subject. I probably shouldn't start to cite them here.
>
> 2. Which of these languages can I use today?
>
> -> Depends on the kind of your projects, on your skills, and
> possibly some more parameters.
>
> In my current project, for example, I am using Erlang
> <http://www.erlang.org> and Refal <http://www.refal.net>. (I wasn't
> always so lucky, I had to use COBOL, C++, VB, Java, and Perl in
> past projects.) There are quite a few languages you might want to
> consider, if you want to gain the advantages of modern
> programming language concepts and if you can afford to go without
> the advantages of a language which is in widespread use. (This is
> one of the reasons why these languages aren't used by a lot of
> programmers: Most can't afford to use a language which is not in
> widespread use.)
>
> If you really want to know more about this subject, this list
> probably isn't the best place to ask questions about it. This is a
> Perl list and here we shouldn't discuss which language we could
> use instead of Perl, but how we can improve programming with Perl
> (e.g. by using the concepts of supercompilation :-).
Actually, I was asking what "new" *concepts* have been
made manifest in languages, that I might employ these
concepts in Perl extensions.
When asking, I was guessing that these concepts might
be AI-related (most "new" things claim to be).
Thus my question is explicitly relevant to this list,
and you have accidentally dodged the issue, as adeptly
as a high-ranking academic :)
Oh well.
-lee
