David Christensen wrote:
On 12/25/2011 09:42 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
The type of applications I've been writing with Perl include system
utilities, text munging, data acquisition and control, and CGI
scripts. Most everything interfaces via the environment, STDIN,
STDOUT, STDERR, and/or files. The applications I want to build
include web content management systems and web portals. I've staying
away from graphical user interfaces and hope to use Web 2 technologies
instead. I prefer text files over databases for interoperability and
version control reasons, although I do have ideas for using SQL for
indexing and query acceleration.
Other wish-list features include FOSS, rigorous language/ library
design and documentation, a comprehensive and easily extended library,
support for automated testing, robust interoperability with OS, local
resources, and remote services, and deep integration with the FOSS
ecosystem. Built-in mini-languages for regular expressions,
documentation, formatting/ templating, SQL, etc., are a conundrum;
libraries would suit me fine.
there's a lot to be said for application-specific languages - otherwise
there's way to much cognitive pain involved in translating to/from
problem domain to/from low-level constructs a la c, java, ..... ---
e.g., for mathematical manipulation, give me MATLAB or MACSYMA over c,
any day of the week
Agreed. (The language/ system I'm seeking should be capable of
implementing application-specific languages.)
"Implementing application-specific languages" (in which case LISP is the
classic environment for doing so), or an "application-specific language
for manipulating system information" (in which case, arguably, various
shells, perl, and tcl are the classic application-specific languages for
doing so)? :-)
Cheers,
Miles
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