[Novalug] Best programming language for "munging?" Not Perl? Ruby? Python?

John Franklin franklin@elfie.org
Thu Oct 29 01:46:46 EDT 2009


Well, it's not Erlang, although Erlang is a wicked cool language.

jf

On Oct 28, 2009, at 10:13 PM, Bruce O. Benson wrote:

> I'm got going to have to switch languages for quite a while.
>
> I have a fast, terse, embeddable (scripting for compiled code),  
> extensible (domain-specific use) language that performs object  
> prototyping (although its OO system is not dictated), iterators,  
> recursive data types, a single data structure mechanism which is  
> used to implement all types, proper tail-call recursion, lexical  
> scoping, first-class higher-order functions, anonymous functions,  
> reflection, and corouting-based multitasking (multiple threads/ 
> multiple interpreters in a single process).  These give it the power  
> of Lisp and Scheme without their syntax.  The syntax is about as  
> easy as BASIC.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 3914 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.firemountain.net/pipermail/novalug/attachments/20091029/7e7233b7/attachment.p7s>


More information about the Novalug mailing list