[Grace-core] Pyret??

Lex Spoon lex at lexspoon.org
Tue Oct 1 11:47:06 PDT 2013


Based on the style guide, it looks like a typed functional language
with strict evaluation. That is, a trimmed down ML as the core. It has
inferred statement terminators, and it has some form of contracts or
unit testing built in with a "check" statement.

The file extension is "arr".   It be a fine and spirited choice for a Pyret.

If all of this is true, I would say it is much more pedestrian than
Grace. Simple and standard is a good way to get things up and running
quickly, to be sure, though of course it is less fun. Although, with
that strategy, wouldn't it be about as well to fork ocaml or some
other mature implementation? That would make it even less fun.

Really, though. "Arrrr!"? That's the opposite of graceful.

Lex


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