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by arakov 6y ago
I know there are problems with destructors. That's why I didn't implement them yet. But in C# they do exist. And after all you may always use explicit finalizers. I don't think that it makes the concept of obligate-GC invalid
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by arakov 6y ago
as much as I can see, Rust is a special case. So I mean most of the modern languages. After all I consider C++ modern as well :)
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by arakov 6y ago
A first class message is similar to the function to invoke this message. So it is just a special case of first class function. I uses first class messages to implement a dynamic record - http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/
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by arakov 6y ago
But it is much more fun to design VM yourself. I could not resist
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by arakov 6y ago
I can't imagine a modern language without GC. So yes, it has. Destructors are not yet implemented,though I do plan them.
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Elena 5.0 Is Out(reddit.com)
3 points by arakov 6y ago|0 comments
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First class messages in ELENA Programming Language(reddit.com)
4 points by arakov 6y ago|0 comments
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Elena Programming Manual(github.com)
1 points by arakov 7y ago|0 comments
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Elena 4.1 Is Out(elenalang.sourceforge.net)
2 points by arakov 7y ago|0 comments
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Building code at run-time in ELENA, Part 2(github.com)
1 points by arakov 7y ago|0 comments
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Building code at run-time in ELENA, Part 1(github.com)
1 points by arakov 7y ago|0 comments
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Elena 4.0.3 Is Out(github.com)
1 points by arakov 7y ago|0 comments
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Introducing ELENA 4.0(reddit.com)
1 points by arakov 8y ago|0 comments
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ELENA Programming Language(github.com)
1 points by arakov 9y ago|0 comments
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by arakov 11y ago
ELENA is a general-purpose, object-oriented, polymorphic language with late binding. It features message dispatching / manipulation, dynamic object mutation, a script engine / interpreter and group object support. The main way to