What is the missing piece that ML brings to the party? I can certainly see lots of neat opportunities for ML tie in with the system we're building, but I can't think of anything that would end up relying on it.
Re:Dataless Programming (1967) [pdf]
by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @01:01AM
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ML brings much better heuristics to the party. Basically, the dream of declarative programming with hand written generic decision and data scheduling procedures hasn't really panned out. All the arrows point to it continuing not to pan out very well, while ML has recently blasted beyond our wildest dreams.
I think these efforts will ultimately succeed only when they are combined with ML, but there is currently very little cross over between PL and ML (I wonder what Peter Norvig will say about this at his Splash keynote).