I very much enjoyed the elegance of S4 patterning. I am intrigued by Clint's comment on best of both worlds. Do you have some syntax/semantics you are thinking of?
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Clinton Jeffery <[email protected]> wrote: > 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!) >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Unicon-group mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group > > -- | Robert Heckendorn | "The belief that there is only | [email protected] | one truth, and that oneself is | http://marvin.cs.uidaho.edu/~heckendo | in possession of it, is the root | Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Idaho | of all evil in the world." | Moscow, Idaho, USA 83844-1010 | -- Max Born ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
