Re: HLL design

fermineutron wrote:
> This is somewhat of a theoretical question for the experts here. Most
> of easy to use languages are too slow for any serious computing while
> the languages like C and assembly are somewhat of a pain to use. The
> key issues that i identyfy as pain include but not limited to,
> variable declaration array boundary checking, strict data types
> etc. Most can be solved by using extended variables that carry key
> information about the data in the variable within the variable, for
> example using the 1st byte to designate the data type of a variable,
> int, float double etc. using second byte to designate the number of
> dimensions in the variable lets say its N, then using N 4-byte
> integers to store dimension sizes, and this header is followed by the
> data itself.
>


You could look into D:
www.digitalmars.com/d/


It has arrays of any type which have a built in .length property and a
convenient foreach(..) method to iterate through them. Changing the
size of the array is as simple as:
array.length = array.length + 100;


it has auto types which is basic type-inferencing:
auto x = callSomeFunction();
x.doSomething();


It has many other features: scope-dependent operations, inner
functions(very useful!), mixins, garbage collection, built-in
associative arrays, delegates, inner classes and more.


You should give it a try.
-DavidM

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