RE: Modern Programming Language Concepts (was: RE: Supercompiled Perl)

> From: Helmut Enck-Radana [mailto:[email protected]]
> On 10 Aug 2001, at 10:49, Lee Goddard wrote:
> 
> > What new concepts have been made manifest in languages that I can
> > use today? I'll try them out. 
> 
> Seems you are asking 2 questions:
> 
> 1. What new concepts have been made manifest in languages?
> 
> -> There are a lot of text books, articles and research papers on 
> this subject. I probably shouldn't start to cite them here.
> 
> 2. Which of these languages can I use today?
> 
> -> Depends on the kind of your projects, on your skills, and 
> possibly some more parameters.
> 
> In my current project, for example, I am using Erlang 
> <http://www.erlang.org> and Refal <http://www.refal.net>. (I wasn't 
> always so lucky, I had to use COBOL, C++, VB, Java, and Perl in 
> past projects.) There are quite a few languages you might want to 
> consider, if you want to gain the advantages of modern 
> programming language concepts and if you can afford to go without 
> the advantages of a language which is in widespread use. (This is 
> one of the reasons why these languages aren't used by a lot of 
> programmers: Most can't afford to use a language which is not in 
> widespread use.)
> 
> If you really want to know more about this subject, this list 
> probably isn't the best place to ask questions about it. This is a 
> Perl list and here we shouldn't discuss which language we could 
> use instead of Perl, but how we can improve programming with Perl 
> (e.g. by using the concepts of supercompilation :-).

Actually, I was asking what "new" *concepts* have been
made manifest in languages, that I might employ these
concepts in Perl extensions.

When asking, I was guessing that these concepts might
be AI-related (most "new" things claim to be).

Thus my question is explicitly relevant to this list,
and you have accidentally dodged the issue, as adeptly
as a high-ranking academic :)

Oh well.

-lee