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Re: LDraw Animation - Why MPD?
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 22:31:10 GMT
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> (* off-topic discussion *)
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> Design and implementation are not as independant as i wish.
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> As part of the design requirements, i pointed moves should be functions and be
> as composable as functions are. Practically that means the language must
> support:
> 1. anonymous functions
> 2. closures
> 3. partial application
> 4. type inference (Milner's type system)
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> Java doesn't meet any of these requirements.
> Perl, Python and Ruby may barely meet 2 or 3 of the requirements.
> Scheme confortably meets 3 of the requirements.
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> The 4 requirements together leave only 3 language candidates:
> 1. OCaml
> 2. Haskell (the successor of Miranda)
> 3. SML (Standard ML)
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> OCaml is by far the most popular of them.
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> Why is a Milner's type system so much needed ?
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> Because of the heavy use of partial application.
> Partial application means you can't check the number of applied arguments. Thus
> code is very fragile: forgetting a function argument goes undetected, this leads
> to code that is clean to read but nightmarish to debug. The solution found by
> Robert Milner is a stronger typing system known as "Milner's type system".
>
> damien
Hi Damien,
The correct place for your response would be .off-topic.geek which is where I
set the follow up to in the response post.
I thought you were proposing to write a scripting language, but now I suspect
you mean that people should use OCaml for their programming. Is this correct?
If you are proposing that people learn OCaml just to run animations then I would
suspect that your target audience would most probably be yourself only. I have
experience in quite a few programming languages and I would not wish to learn
OCaml unless it was for a very good reason.
Please correct these assumptions if you think they are wrong!
Yours,
Tim
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