Functional - Re: shootout: implementing an interpreter for a simple procedural language Minim

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Re: shootout: implementing an interpreter for a simple procedural language Minim

Raffael Cavallaro

2007-07-31, 4:19 am

On 2007-07-30 11:25:31 -0400, Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> said:

> I just can't think of many instances where I'd want to do anything
> like like the above. The thing I'm working on now is written in a
> dynamic language (Python) yet all its user input can be described
> statically.

Then, with respect, you may not be working on a very dynamic problem.
What if the user community invents a new process, or new input types,
or their interaction results in new types of outputs? Your site has to
go down in order to add this (or does python have some equivalent of
update-instance-for-redefined-class).

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