On 09/18/2010 12:31 PM, retard wrote:
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.
Then probably it's fair to not chastise Walter for not having heard of
it. (FWIW I'm familiar with ML and somewhat so with OCaml, but I only
vaguely knew of a language called Alice and didn't know it was related
to ML.)
Andrei
