Re:Beating the Arc Challenge in Haskell
by camccann on Saturday December 19, 2009 @05:25PM
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Thank you for picking up on that half of my joke. Everyone else went for the type system part...
Not that it isn't easy to make a candied Lisp dialect with "friendly" syntax more appealing to non-Lisp programmers, but anyone who actually learns a Lisp quickly realizes that it just gets in the way...
If I were to personally try creating an "ideal language" to match my tongue-in-cheek plea, I'd probably start with a terse Lisp-like syntax and a HM-like type system and go from there.
Not that it isn't easy to make a candied Lisp dialect with "friendly" syntax more appealing to non-Lisp programmers, but anyone who actually learns a Lisp quickly realizes that it just gets in the way...
If I were to personally try creating an "ideal language" to match my tongue-in-cheek plea, I'd probably start with a terse Lisp-like syntax and a HM-like type system and go from there.