Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:43:45 +0200, Lutger wrote: > 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.
Unfortunately no, but the web site gives an impression that the development has stalled few years ago. I think Alice used the Oz's runtime, but is now a separate project with a new backend. If I'd write something significant commercial code in any functional language, I might choose F# or Haskell instead.