On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote:
Luke Palmer lrpal...@gmail.com writes:
To us, scripting meant short, potent code that rolled off your
fingers and into the computers mind, compelling it to do your job with
reverence to the super power you truly are.
Just
On 05/11/2010, at 4:11 PM, Luke Palmer wrote:
Also they don't
scale well, which I guess means that they don't make it inconvenient
to design badly.
And they don't communicate enough information about the
preconditions/postconditions of their functions to easily allow large programs
to
Quoth Luke Palmer lrpal...@gmail.com,
...
Scripting language strikes me as one of those terms that is used in
heated arguments despite having no meaning (meaningless terms seem to
proliferate as the heat is turned up). I dunno, I just don't think it
is a big deal. Everybody seems to be
Luke Palmer lrpal...@gmail.com writes:
To us, scripting meant short, potent code that rolled off your
fingers and into the computers mind, compelling it to do your job with
reverence to the super power you truly are.
Just when I thought, oh, there are two definitions for scripting
language,
Quoth Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com,
...
I didn't get to see the Amiga 600 until at least five or six years later
than that. (It's actually news to me that the Amiga line is that old.)
And I spent most of my time programming it in Pascal (or AMOS BASIC -
but that's not really
On 5/11/2010, at 1:00 PM, Donn Cave wrote:
I don't care about whether Python had any influence, but I'd sure
like to stamp out the scripting language rumor.
In this case it may be the Haskell community to blame.
Google for Haskell script
and you will find, for example, Learn you a Haskell for
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Donn Cave d...@avvanta.com wrote:
I don't care about whether Python had any influence, but I'd sure
like to stamp out the scripting language rumor.
You all are talking about calling Haskell a scripting language like
it's a bad thing.
Coming from a Perl
