[Grace-core] Pyret??

[Kim Bruce]

Clearly the suffix should have been .argh.  How could they have made that mistake?

Kim



On Oct 1, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Lex Spoon <lex at lexspoon.org> wrote:

> 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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