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Re: What's new with the other programming models?

From David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: What's new with the other programming models?
Date 2021-12-03 13:04 +0100
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On 03/12/2021 12:24, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> writes:
> 

> 
>> I suppose Macro processors are in a sense a development
>> of Post string rewriting.
> 
> Yes.  They were once very active areas of work/research -- trac, TeX, m4
> and so on -- but I think the all interesting ideas have been worked out.

In the TeX world, the modern direction is LuaTeX - complex functions are
written in Lua rather than TeX.  TeX macros maybe Turing complete, but
they are not always easy to program well - especially if you are
interested in efficiency.  Lua is an imperative language, rather than a
macro language.

> When that happens, an area needs a new spark to re-ignite interest.

Or it can just be left behind.  We don't need to work on /everything/ !

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What's new with the other programming models? luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2021-12-02 22:13 -0800
  Re: What's new with the other programming models? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-12-03 10:02 +0100
    Re: What's new with the other programming models? luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2021-12-03 19:40 -0800
      Re: What's new with the other programming models? luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2021-12-03 21:03 -0800
      Re: What's new with the other programming models? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-12-04 16:03 +0100
  Re: What's new with the other programming models? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-12-03 11:24 +0000
    Re: What's new with the other programming models? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-12-03 13:04 +0100
    Re: What's new with the other programming models? luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2021-12-03 21:26 -0800
  Re: What's new with the other programming models? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2021-12-04 01:14 -0800
    Re: What's new with the other programming models? luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2021-12-04 16:47 -0800
      Re: What's new with the other programming models? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2021-12-05 02:55 -0800
        Re: What's new with the other programming models? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-12-05 13:29 +0100
          Re: What's new with the other programming models? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2021-12-05 14:52 -0800
            Re: What's new with the other programming models? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2021-12-05 22:59 +0000
              Re: What's new with the other programming models? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2021-12-05 15:09 -0800
              Re: What's new with the other programming models? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-12-06 09:00 +0100
                Re: What's new with the other programming models? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2021-12-06 00:05 -0800
                Re: What's new with the other programming models? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2021-12-06 08:17 +0000
                Re: What's new with the other programming models? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2021-12-06 00:20 -0800
                Re: What's new with the other programming models? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2021-12-06 09:44 +0000
                Re: What's new with the other programming models? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-12-06 11:25 +0100
                Re: What's new with the other programming models? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2021-12-06 09:02 -0800
                Re: What's new with the other programming models? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-12-06 18:51 +0100
                Re: What's new with the other programming models? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2021-12-06 17:58 +0000
                Re: What's new with the other programming models? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2021-12-06 18:05 +0000

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