On 2/4/14, 12:52 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/4/2014 10:54 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 2/4/14, 8:59 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 07:43:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/21/2014 8:29 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vtm2
On 2/4/2014 10:54 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 2/4/14, 8:59 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 07:43:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/21/2014 8:29 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vtm2l/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language_dr
On 2/4/14, 8:59 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 07:43:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/21/2014 8:29 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vtm2l/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language_dr_dobbs/
Just showed up on Hacker News:
https:/
On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 07:43:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/21/2014 8:29 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vtm2l/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language_dr_dobbs/
Just showed up on Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7172971
A rep
On 1/21/2014 8:29 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vtm2l/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language_dr_dobbs/
Just showed up on Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7172971
On Tuesday, 28 January 2014 at 00:48:48 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
It doesn't make sense for someone to walk up (or be given a
ride to by a friend) to the DMV wait 30 minutes and once they
do all the work to get the license say "Wait, no, I refuse this
after all."
Pretty dramatic action, if he, s
On Monday, 27 January 2014 at 09:19:25 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 23 January 2014 at 10:24:23 UTC, Chris wrote:
A good example are headlines. A classic is "Driver refused
license". Now, everybody will assume that it was not the
driver who refused the license (default assumption or the
_u
On Thursday, 23 January 2014 at 10:24:23 UTC, Chris wrote:
A good example are headlines. A classic is "Driver refused
license". Now, everybody will assume that it was not the driver
who refused the license (default assumption or the _unmarked
case_).
Why it's not a driver who refused a licens
On 1/24/2014 9:56 AM, Steve Teale wrote:
On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 04:29:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vtm2l/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language_dr_dobbs/
Nice Walter. You're almost as down-to-earth as me. I love what you have
achieved.
On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 04:29:05 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vtm2l/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language_dr_dobbs/
Nice Walter. You're almost as down-to-earth as me. I love what
you have achieved.
On Thursday, 23 January 2014 at 10:24:23 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 18:46:06 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 1/22/2014 3:40 AM, Chris wrote:
Syntax is getting simplified due to the fact that the
listener "knows what we
mean", e.g. "buy one get one free". I wonder to what ex
On Thursday, 23 January 2014 at 20:11:15 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On 1/23/2014 5:24 AM, Chris wrote:
I find it extremely interesting how the human
mind (not just language) is reflected in programming languages.
They way I usually see it is that the human mind HAS to be
reflected in progra
On 1/23/2014 5:24 AM, Chris wrote:
I find it extremely interesting how the human
mind (not just language) is reflected in programming languages.
They way I usually see it is that the human mind HAS to be reflected in
programming languages as that's the whole point.
We already knew how to pr
On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 18:46:06 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 1/22/2014 3:40 AM, Chris wrote:
Syntax is getting simplified due to the fact that the listener
"knows what we
mean", e.g. "buy one get one free". I wonder to what extent
languages will be
simplified one day. But this is a t
On 1/22/2014 3:21 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
My understanding is that your concern is related to the stage at which lowering
is performed, which I'd agree with.
I also think we did a slap-dash job of it, not that the concept is wrong.
On 1/22/14 4:53 AM, Don wrote:
On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 04:29:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vtm2l/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language_dr_dobbs/
Great article. I was surprised that you mentioned lowering positively,
though.
I think from
Am 22.01.2014 14:28, schrieb Dejan Lekic:
On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 10:38:40 UTC, bearophile wrote:
In Haskell the GHC compiler goes one step further, it translates all
the Haskell code into an intermediate code named Core, that is not the
language of a virtual machine, it's still a func
Don:
Could you give an example? We've tried very hard to avoid
useless error messages, there should only be one error message
for each bug in the code.
Parser errors still generate a cascade of junk, and the "cannot
deduce function from argument types" message is still painful
-- is that what
On 1/22/2014 3:40 AM, Chris wrote:
Syntax is getting simplified due to the fact that the listener "knows what we
mean", e.g. "buy one get one free". I wonder to what extent languages will be
simplified one day. But this is a topic for a whole book ...
There was this article recently:
http://ww
On 1/22/2014 4:53 AM, Don wrote:
On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 04:29:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vtm2l/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language_dr_dobbs/
Great article. I was surprised that you mentioned lowering positively, though.
I think fro
On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 10:38:40 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vtm2l/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language_dr_dobbs/
Thank you for the simple nice article.
The poisoning approach. [...] This is the approach we've been
using in
On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 10:38:40 UTC, bearophile wrote:
In Haskell the GHC compiler goes one step further, it
translates all the Haskell code into an intermediate code named
Core, that is not the language of a virtual machine, it's still
a functional language, but it's simpler, lot o
On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 11:59:30 UTC, bearophile wrote:
I'd like to measure this statement experimentally: are error
messages in Go and Scala any worse because of the optional use
of semicolons? My initial supposition is that the answer is
negative.
Error messages in SML are either r
On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 04:29:05 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vtm2l/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language_dr_dobbs/
Great article. I was surprised that you mentioned lowering
positively, though.
I think from DMD we have enough experience t
Chris:
"A good syntax needs redundancy in order to diagnose errors and
give good error messages."
I'd like to measure this statement experimentally: are error
messages in Go and Scala any worse because of the optional use of
semicolons? My initial supposition is that the answer is negative.
On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 04:29:05 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vtm2l/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language_dr_dobbs/
Great article!
On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 04:29:05 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vtm2l/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language_dr_dobbs/
"A good syntax needs redundancy in order to diagnose errors and
give good error messages."
This is also true of natural la
On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 10:36:31 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
I'm wonder why is there so many books about implementing
compilers that spends, usually, quite a large chapter about
regular expressions?
I wonder about that too. For anything halfway useful regex has
too much limitations.
On 2014-01-22 05:29, Walter Bright wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vtm2l/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language_dr_dobbs/
From the article: "Regex is just the wrong tool for lexing and parsing."
I'm wonder why is there so many books about implementing compilers that
spend
Walter Bright:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vtm2l/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language_dr_dobbs/
Thank you for the simple nice article.
The poisoning approach. [...] This is the approach we've been
using in the D compiler, and are very pleased with the results.<
Yet, ev
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