What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

[George Neuner]

On 19 Jun 2006 13:53:01 +0200, torbenm at app-1.diku.dk (Torben Ægidius
Mogensen) wrote:

>George Neuner <gneuner2/@comcast.net> writes:
>
>> On 19 Jun 2006 10:19:05 +0200, torbenm at app-3.diku.dk (Torben Ægidius
>> Mogensen) wrote:
>
>> >I expect a lot of the exploration you do with incomplete programs
>> >amount to the feedback you get from type inference.
>> 
>> The ability to write functions and test them immediately without
>> writing a lot of supporting code is _far_ more useful to me than type
>> inference.  
>
>I can't see what this has to do with static/dynamic typing.  You can
>test individul functions in isolation is statically typed languages
>too.

It has nothing to do with static/dynamic typing and that was the point
... that support for exploratory programming is orthogonal to the
language's typing scheme.

George
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