retard wrote: > Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:44:30 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > >> I know nothing about Alice. > > You SHOULD probably study the ML family of languages a bit more closely. > It feels like we're having a conversation with a dinosaur. > > After all, in the functional programming world, ML languages are the > closest competitor of D. Why? Both try to be safe, modular, strict (= not > lazy by default), functional, garbage collected, often compile to native > code, and have an expressive static type system with inference. > > Alice is the Alice ML dialect, http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/alice/
Do you know if Alice is suited for practical programming, any experience? I know only that it is somewhat related to Oz which had a reasonably extensive ecosystem, but it doesn't seem to be developed anymore.
