which language

[Jing Su]

Sorry, I haven't paid much attention to this thread and so my reply might
not be within the context of what you want...

Though Java isn't quite "scripting language", it is still much easier to
play with than C++ and has a better set of support libraries.

If you're willing to stray away from the standard Java language, try
taking a look at MultiJava.  MultiJava basically is a port to give Java
some of the same function signature matching capabilities of languages
like ML.
http://multijava.sourceforge.net

MultiJava is byte-code compatible with JVM's, so you don't have to worry
about byte-code portability.  All that's different is the compiler.

I actually coded in MultiJava in my undergrad research project, and it
does give you some very nice programming flexibilities.  In particular,
because the MultiMethods can be inherited and extended, it made the
project quite a bit nicer to write, extend, and read.

-Jing

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Peter L. Peres wrote:

> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:17:56 -0500
> From: Peter L. Peres <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org>
> Reply-To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: which language
>
>
> Thanks to all who replied. The answer seems to be no. I cannot wait a year
> or two for Perl 6. And I will not do it in C++. So Prolog, or restate the
> idea ... (I know very little Prolog).
>
> Peter
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