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Print 1 to 10, as a comma-separated list. In e.g. Scala, you can do that: print( 1 to 10 mkString "," ) It's not 100% human language/grammar, but close (and

Print 1 to 10, as a comma-separated list. In e.g. Scala, you can do that: print( 1 to 10 mkString "," ) It's not 100% human language/grammar, but close (and you have auto-completion using IDE). Why would you need another DSL? (Not trying to bash Avail, nor promote Scala, just curious for its usecases)

jhall1468 8y ago
I'm pretty sure the goal of these "natural language style" programming languages extends beyond printing a comma-delimited list of numbers. This arbitrary example doesn't mean much.
- p1necone 8y ago
  It's not a very good example though - it's not showing me any sort of improvement over actual programming languages - just an intentionally bad bit of code.
  - jhall1468 8y ago
    No it's an arbitrary example of which their are many more on the site. You're just overly obsessed with that one.
    - p1necone 8y ago
      It's the only code example on the 'Introduction' page. I'm sorry for expecting something better.
Athas 8y ago
I agree; defining well-named functions seem a superior solution. In Haskell, it would just be: print (intercalate ", " [1..10]) I don't buy natural-language-ish programming languages. The grammar becomes far too complicated very quickly. A simple but flexible grammar, a la most functional languages, is superior.
- tomp 8y ago
  I hope you didn't mean to imply that `intercalate` is a _well-named_ function... I've no idea what it means, and even after a dictionary search it's still not obvious to me why you'd ever name a method like this!
  - bausshf 8y ago
    It's kind of a bad name, but not entirely. This is the definition of intercalate. --- intercalate [in-tur-kuh-leyt] verb (used with object), in·ter·ca·lat·ed, in·ter·ca·lat·ing. 1. to interpolate; interpose. 2. to insert (an extra day, month, etc.) in the calendar.