Re: What does the world want from a programming language? (Re: Grammar for future languages)

jthill@netcom.com (Jim Hill)
Mon, 13 Nov 1995 13:22:02 GMT

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From: jthill@netcom.com (Jim Hill)
Keywords: design
Organization: biological <-- hey! a one-word oxymoron!
References: 95-10-103 95-11-040 95-11-081
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 13:22:02 GMT

torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen) wrote:


>Another way is to provide very high level constructs in the language, ...
>Another way to decrease production time is (semi-)automatic
>configuration of code


I think these two are different views of the same thing. Specify the
operations you want to do on a collection (to avoid 'list') and let the
"compiler" use hints and feedback to dope out what structures and
algorithms to implement so the operations you use most go fast. Heavy
doses of this would I think produce source that looks a lot like database
languages, but databases don't typically rewrite layouts and boundaries to
match observed access patterns...


Jim
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