Tim Nikkel pointed me towards Concept Programming and the XL language. I will have to look further into this, but it’s looking quite intriguing.
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Half-baked idea ahead!
So I’m reading Lambda the Ultimate, and pondering programming languages. It occurs to me that what the world seriously is in dire need of is some way to build re-usable control structures. To enforce design patterns.
Mid-level programming, I call it.
Think about it — all we have is if statements and a couple of different kinds of loops. Recently, we got exceptions.
Functional languages and meta-programming are, naturally, great for this. Since control structures are just functions anyway, build whatever you want. Go nuts. Fine and … Continue Reading