Re: Crystal

2013-02-21 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Sunday, 17 February 2013 at 06:28:09 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote: I'd also like to ask you: 1. Do you know whether a similar language exists? Not sure how similar all the goals are (dynamic with static benefits) but there is Magpie: http://magpie.stuffwithstuff.com/

Re: Crystal

2013-02-21 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-02-21 21:37, Jesse Phillips wrote: Not sure how similar all the goals are (dynamic with static benefits) but there is Magpie: http://magpie.stuffwithstuff.com/ Doesn't that run on the JVM? -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: Crystal

2013-02-21 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Thursday, 21 February 2013 at 21:59:06 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: Doesn't that run on the JVM? I couldn't find what it generates to. It has an interpreter in Java and C++ though. Ok, that sounds really stupid. I thought it had a compiled component, but I don't see that, just looks to be

Re: Crystal

2013-02-21 Thread bearophile
Jesse Phillips: Ok, that sounds really stupid. I thought it had a compiled component, but I don't see that, just looks to be interpreted. Magpie designer (Bob Nystrom) is a quite smart person :-) Here he explains two main kinds of iterations: