Re: F2003 standard: Can Class(*) be used in generic proogramming?

Gary Scott wrote:

Looks like everything we knew is now obsolete...

Not obsolete, just at the bottom of the stack...

ThoughtWorks colleague Ola Bini envisions a future stack of basic programming tools consisting of a "stable language" at the bottom level, with dynamic languages built on top of that, and DSLs added at the top layer.

as found via a Twitter stream:

http://static.raibledesigns.com/repository/images/olas-layers.png

See also ThoughtWork's DSL podcasts:

http://www.thoughtworks.com/what-we-say/podcasts.html

and FWIW, my foray with external DSLs,

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20070027745_2007026087.pdf

aka, Blurring the Inputs: A Natural Language Approach
to Sensitivity Analysis.

Regards,
--
Bil Kleb
http://nasarb.rubyforge.org
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