Good morning Andrew,

On 07/14/2010 10:18 AM, Andrew Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:12:06 you wrote:
>> In relation to the rest of it, this is example code that will end up
>> being generated by another program.
>>
> Ahhh generators. That's a whole different world where crimes against
> source code humanity are unavoidable. My livelihood for the last 12
> years has been based on a generator, and it sometimes does things that
> should not be seen by human eyes ;-)

The final goal is that it will be readable by mankind.
>> Thanks for the above. It is much appreciated, my only concern is
>>   whether or not this will be amenable to automatic generation.
>>
> Correctness of generation is always the first step; optimising comes
> later, and making it attractive to humans is probably the lowest
> priority, unless the end-user of the generated code has to understand
> it.
>
> Good luck on your mission, Icon has proven to be extremely worthy for
> the task
>
> Cheers
>
>
Thank you. This project is part of an experiment in developing a full 
blown soft-typing fully first-class programming language that I can use 
for writing all sorts of programming systems.

regards

Bruce Rennie


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