http://www.lispcast.com/uncategorized/framework-of-programming-language-expressivity/ passion for programming Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:35:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.lispcast.com/uncategorized/framework-of-programming-language-expressivity/comment-page-1/#comment-45 A_flj_ Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:31:33 +0000 http://new.lispcast.com/?p=111#comment-45 <p>Idunno. It seems to me that your assumption that beyond a certain functional complexity Scheme allows you to write smaller programs providing the same functionality is based on the assumption that Java programmers don't properly design their code. This assumption, IMO, stems from you not knowing how Java projects are usually performed.<br><br>Java programmers do indeed lack a mechanism of macros, but nobody prevents them from designing highly reusable components/classes, which should make development of additional features easy. In fact, it's what most projects do: develop a relatively small and simple set of domain-specific classes, then build huge applications on top of the application-specific library. In fact, you can even include rhino or beanshell as a library in your app and drive your app from scripts.<br><br>Therefore I'd very much like to see a real life example before I g ive any credit to your assumptions.</p> Idunno. It seems to me that your assumption that beyond a certain functional complexity Scheme allows you to write smaller programs providing the same functionality is based on the assumption that Java programmers don't properly design their code. This assumption, IMO, stems from you not knowing how Java projects are usually performed.

Java programmers do indeed lack a mechanism of macros, but nobody prevents them from designing highly reusable components/classes, which should make development of additional features easy. In fact, it's what most projects do: develop a relatively small and simple set of domain-specific classes, then build huge applications on top of the application-specific library. In fact, you can even include rhino or beanshell as a library in your app and drive your app from scripts.

Therefore I'd very much like to see a real life example before I g ive any credit to your assumptions.

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