On 02/09/2011 08:47 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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You'd think that things like JS, Haskell, LISP and Java circa v1.2 would have
taught people that extreme simplicity/orthogonality is a stupid way to design
a language that's intended to be used in the real world. But people keep
flocking to that silver bullet anyway.
Yeah, I've been thinking of doing my next presentation on the topic of false
simplicity.
Great! I long for reading such a doc.
Had in mind an article titled "simplicity ==> difficulty". The point is that,
when a PL predefines to few notions, and even more /distinctions/, then it
becomes articially hard to express any non-trivial model. The "modeller" needs
to reinvent the missing notions and distinctions, often in an unclear, adhoc,
even unconscious, manner. (*)
denis
Notions: associative table, collection traversal, multi-way choice,...
Among distinctions I would love to see in PLs are:
* define vs modify (2 != assignments)
a := 1 // error: a is undefined
a = 1 // ok
a = 2 // error: a is already defined
a := 2 // ok
* thing vs value (things is an element with identity/ref)
* function (question) vs action (command)
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