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Good points. ML originally had Lisp-like macros, not sure about hygiene. Note also that one doesn't always want hygiene in meta-programming, although it is nic
by mafribe 10y ago
Good points.
ML originally had Lisp-like macros, not sure about hygiene. Note also that one doesn't always want hygiene in meta-programming, although it is nice to have the option of hygienic macro expansion.
I explicitly restricted the comparison to languages for sequential computing. There has been a lot of novely in concurrent programming.
Arrays and hash tables are data-structures that you can implement as libraries in ML, so I'd say that's not a language issue. Progress in data structures and algorithms has been considerable.
- catnaroek 10y ago> I explicitly restricted the comparison to languages for sequential computing. There has been a lot of novely in concurrent programming. Oops, yes, my bad! > Arrays and hash tables are data-structures that you can implement as libraries in ML, so I'd say that's not a language issue. Yes, but the point is that nowadays we have languages in which it's “convenient” to design entire large applications around nothing but arrays and data structures. Also, that one was snark. > Progress in data structures and algorithms has been considerable. In CS, yes. In everyday programming, regress in data structures and algorithms has also been considerable.