Can ruby replace c?

[Karl von Laudermann]

Selon Lothar Scholz <[email protected]>:

Actually, Sather looks
quite a bit like Ruby, with the main difference being that it is statistically
typed.

I'm not familiar with statistical typing. Does this mean that the
compiler guesses a variable's type based on a random sample of similar
variables from previous programs?

 

[Christophe Grandsire]

I'm not familiar with statistical typing. Does this mean that the
compiler guesses a variable's type based on a random sample of similar
variables from previous programs?

LOL! Oops! I naturally meant *statically* typed (never do five things at =
the
same time!), although I must say I like the idea of statistical typing th=
e way
you describe it . I foresee nice derivatives like fashionable typing (=
a
variable gets the type the majority of variables get at a certain time), =
ghetto
typing (the variable gets the type of variables that look like it in simi=
lar
programs) or rebel typing (the variable gets a completely different and i=
f
possible opposite type from similar variables in classes in the inheritan=
ce
chain of the variable's class ).

And they said Intercal was difficult .
--
Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.

 

[Devin Mullins]

I'm not familiar with statistical typing. Does this mean that the
compiler guesses a variable's type based on a random sample of similar
variables from previous programs?

Somewhat related:

http://p-nand-q.com/humor/programming_languages/java2k.html

Devin

 

[Lothar Scholz]

Hello Christophe,


CG> All in all Sather is quite an interesting language from a Ruby point of view.
CG> Too bad that its community is non-existent (although the official compiler, GNU
CG> Sather, is still reasonably supported, last update being in June of this year).

Because it was never useable in practice. A very bad compiler for
practical use and no libraries. It was always nothing more then a
research project from one professor and his small group.

 

[Martin DeMello]

I think I've seen a language called "ya" already, which would be a
cyrillic letter...

And the best known one in the US, thanks to a chain store called "Toys
ya Us"

martin