From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: haj@posteo.de (Harald Jörg)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Handling extensions of programming languages (Perl)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:58:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr1k7ote9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1k7q92b.fsf@hajtower> ("Harald Jörg"'s message of "Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:31:40 +0100")
>>> That was my first thought as well. But then, the declarators appear in
>>> places where other languages have their types.
>>
>> [ I think you use a very restricted definition of "other languages" here.
>> It's definitely not the case for most of the statically typed languages
>> I've used, except for C.
>> I'm thinking of OCaml, SML, Haskell, Agda, Coq, Modula-2, Pascal, Ada, ... ]
>
> Guilty, your honor. In the last years I've dealt with Emacs Lisp (only
> very recently), Perl, C, Java, JavaScript ... and before that with a
> dialect of PL/1, assembly languages (68000, x86, /390) ... and before
> that with FORTRAN, where everyone's type system seemed to be IMPLICIT
> INTEGER I-N. So indeed, almost no intersection with your list.
Of those the only ones that are statically typed seem to be C, Java,
Fortran and PL/1; and AFAICT only 50% (C and Java) use a syntax where
the type is placed at a location comparable to where `my` is placed in
Perl, IMO.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-22 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-19 18:53 Handling extensions of programming languages Harald Jörg
2021-03-20 17:02 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-20 23:40 ` Harald Jörg
2021-03-21 2:18 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-03-21 11:41 ` Harald Jörg
2021-03-21 12:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-21 15:48 ` Harald Jörg
2021-03-21 17:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-22 14:08 ` Handling extensions of programming languages (Perl) Harald Jörg
2021-03-22 14:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-22 17:32 ` Harald Jörg
2021-03-22 18:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-22 19:31 ` Harald Jörg
2021-03-22 19:58 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-03-22 22:05 ` [OFFTOPIC] " Harald Jörg
2021-03-22 22:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-22 23:43 ` Harald Jörg
2021-03-23 3:49 ` [OFFTOPIC] " Stefan Monnier
2021-03-30 18:41 ` Handling extensions of programming languages Stephen Leake
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