Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-20 Thread genea
Joe Marshall wrote: {...} > The issue of `static vs. dynamic types' comes up about twice a year in > comp.lang.lisp It generally gets pretty heated, but eventually people > come to understand what the other person is saying (or they get bored > and drop out of the conversation - I'm not sure whic

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-16 Thread genea
Torben Ægidius Mogensen wrote: > There are several aspects relevant to this issue, some of which are: > - Compactness: How much do I have to type to do what I want? .. > - Naturality: How much effort does it take to convert the concepts of >my problem into the concepts of the language?