On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Chris Warburton <chriswa...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> David Barbour <dmbarb...@gmail.com> writes: > > > But favoring a simpler programming model - e.g. one with only > > integers, and where the only operation is to add or compare them > > -might also help. > > If the problem domain is X then I agree a minimal X-specific DSL is a > good idea, although purely numeric problems are often amenable to more > direct solutions; eg. dynamic programming, gradient-based methods, etc. > A rather nice property: given any general purpose concatenative language, we can create a DSL for genetic programming by developing a set of high-level words... then using those as the primitives for the GP. The main issue, I think, is a more flexible environment model. The "stack" doesn't offer very flexible interactions. A document (zipper) or graph could be modeled as an object on the stack, though. Best, Dave
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