I am mostly enjoying this conversation without butting in, but this comment
regarding the trade-offs and relative parity between S4 and Icon points out
my motivation for wanting to
pursue this further: I believe it is possible to obtain the
best-of-both-worlds, or at least a
good approximation of it.  But it is a big job and the language design part
is deeper than
an M.S. thesis normally gets.

Clint

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Steve Wampler <[email protected]> wrote:

> My experience comparing what I did in S4 with what I do in Icon/Unicon is
> that while S4 PM let me succinctly describe the matching process, by the
> time
> I added in the code to actually do things with the results, it wasn't
> that much more terse than Icon/Unicon, and a lot harder for me to
> understand.
> (Then again, I know Icon/Unicon very well - I'm *sure* someone whose
> knowledge of the two languages is reversed from mine would have a
> different point-of-view!)
>
>
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