12 Oct
2007
12 Oct
'07
2:01 p.m.
On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 13:52 -0400, Steve Schafer wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:24:38 +0100, you wrote:
I was actually thinking more along the lines of a programming language where you can just write
head :: (n > 1) => List n x -> x
tail :: List n x -> List (n-1) x
(++) :: List n x -> List m x -> List (n+m) x
and so forth.
How, then, is that any different from a general-purpose programming language? You're just drawing the "line in the sand" in a different place. You end up with a programming system where compilation is a "side effect" of executing the "real" program.
I'd use that language... jcc