Re:Frege: A Haskell-Like Language for the JVM
by pron on Saturday August 15, 2015 @12:13AM
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I think Ruby is too small to be considered an industry-wide success. PHP is indeed extremely successful, and should be added to my small list of scripting languages (in fact, it has been far more successful than Python): BASIC, PHP, Python. However, those exceptions are still only for scripting languages (even if you count Ruby), and none of the languages mentioned by the comment I responded to -- except Groovy -- falls in that category.
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Re:Frege: A Haskell-Like Language for the JVM
by sanderjd on Monday August 17, 2015 @12:59PM
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This thread is a bit old for me to expect a response, but I'm always curious when I see people using this terminology: what purpose does the term "scripting language" serve? It doesn't seem to tell me anything about what a language is useful for, its runtime characteristics, or the style or philosophy it encourages.
Re:Frege: A Haskell-Like Language for the JVM
by mindcrime on Monday August 17, 2015 @12:25AM
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I think Ruby is too small to be considered an industry-wide success.
I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of the TIOBE index, but in this case I'll cite it, as it is "close enough" I think. Ruby is #13 right now, which isn't bad. And while I think TIOBE has some warts, I think it's safe to say that anything in the top 20 is fairly successful, and anything in the top 50 is "successful" to a certain degree.
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....