murrayh

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   by murrayh 19y ago

   I wish I were more eloquent so I could state my opinions clearly. 'Writing a language' might be a component of creating a product. Language theology (sorry... hopefully you get what I mean, is there a word for this?) appears to me to be the
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   by murrayh 19y ago

   I am not certain what this new challenge is trying to achieve. The Arc challenge serves an immediate purpose: getting people to investigate Arc (and perhaps to ease the sniping put-up-or-shut-up style). Thinking about a 100 year language se
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   by murrayh 19y ago

   That site looks like it is aimed at physical products ("model", "manufacture") rather than software. Physical products are much easier to knock off than evolving, quality software; so IP protection and the like are probably more important.
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   by murrayh 19y ago

   Clearly not my hack, but worth mentioning: http://www.snopes.com/business/deals/pudding.asp
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   by murrayh 19y ago

   An area where I suspect IDEs could be helpful even in higher-level languages would be for TDD. In my limited experience, I have found TDD to involve a lot of "plumbing" that a computer could easily do for me. It would be nice to write a tes