[elm-discuss] Re: ELM = JAVASCRIPT REINVENTED (PART 1)

2017-11-03 Thread 'Rupert Smith' via Elm Discuss
On Friday, November 3, 2017 at 4:08:37 AM UTC, Richard Feldman wrote: > > Any ways in which Elm's design resembles JS are almost certainly > coincidental! No programmers were harmed in the making of this movie... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[elm-discuss] Re: ELM = JAVASCRIPT REINVENTED (PART 1)

2017-11-02 Thread Richard Feldman
Yeah it's a bit inaccurate to say Elm is JS reinvented because Elm never used JS as a starting point.  I think there's a more plausible case to be made that Elm is "Standard ML Reinvented" - since JS is only Elm's (current) compilation target. Any ways in which Elm's design resembles JS are

[elm-discuss] Re: ELM = JAVASCRIPT REINVENTED (PART 1)

2017-10-30 Thread Erkal Selman
ok, maybe I am wrong. The british dictionary says: to replace (a product, etc) with an entirely new version On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 11:09:17 AM UTC+1, Erkal Selman wrote: > > Hi Pedro, > > I liked the blog post but do you think that "ELM = JAVASCRIPT REINVENTED" > is a good title? > Look

[elm-discuss] Re: ELM = JAVASCRIPT REINVENTED (PART 1)

2017-10-30 Thread Erkal Selman
Hi Pedro, I liked the blog post but do you think that "ELM = JAVASCRIPT REINVENTED" is a good title? Look at the meaning of reinvention: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/reinvention I don't think that this is what you are telling in the post. On Monday, October 23, 2017 at 8:02:11 PM UTC+2,

Re: [elm-discuss] Re: ELM = JAVASCRIPT REINVENTED (PART 1)

2017-10-25 Thread roovo
...whereas for me working with elm is a pleasure because of its simplicity. I subscribe to the sorts of ideas in articles like: Creativity: How Constraints Drive Genius . I've produced

Re: [elm-discuss] Re: ELM = JAVASCRIPT REINVENTED (PART 1)

2017-10-25 Thread John Orford
that's v true - perhaps programmers are are too prone to idealism... but then again, it's a perk of the job ; ) On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 at 12:14 Peter Damoc wrote: > Reality is prickly-goo and gooey-prickles > . > > Elm sins by seeing

Re: [elm-discuss] Re: ELM = JAVASCRIPT REINVENTED (PART 1)

2017-10-25 Thread Peter Damoc
Reality is prickly-goo and gooey-prickles . Elm sins by seeing reality too much from a prickly point of view. You can call this opinionated but if it is taken to an extreme, you get the symptoms typical to a prickly system, the main one being the

Re: [elm-discuss] Re: ELM = JAVASCRIPT REINVENTED (PART 1)

2017-10-25 Thread John Orford
I think Elm is a very opinionated language - which lends itself to love & hate : ) Which is a good thing - languages in which you can do anything and everything are guey slimey things... On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 at 18:36 Charles Scalfani wrote: > Back in the day when Java was