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Articulating the ineffable. Programming language theory 🤝 cognitive psychology. PhD @Stanford

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    1. Will Crichton‏ @wcrichton 17 Oct 2020

      With static vs dynamic discourse back in vogue, time to revive this post: concrete examples of patterns enabled by dynamic typing that are significantly harder in statically typed languages. https://willcrichton.net/notes/idioms-of-dynamic-languages/ …

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    2. Will Crichton‏ @wcrichton 17 Oct 2020

      In short: - Dynamically-sized heterogeneous data structures (eg JSON) - Ad hoc interfaces / structural subtyping - Reflection - Incomplete programs

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    3. Yaron (Ron) Minsky‏ @yminsky 17 Oct 2020
      Replying to @wcrichton

      Macros? Delimited continuations?

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    4. Will Crichton‏ @wcrichton 17 Oct 2020
      Replying to @yminsky

      The set I highlighted isn’t exhaustive, but IMO the most important idioms for popular dynlangs in practice. Neither macros nor delimited continuations are going to appear in most Python/Javascript/etc codebases.

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    5. Will Crichton‏ @wcrichton 17 Oct 2020
      Replying to @wcrichton @yminsky

      Macros in particular are interesting because I think they tend to matter more for statically typed languages, as a means of building abstractions that aren’t encodable in the type system.

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    6. Yaron (Ron) Minsky‏ @yminsky 17 Oct 2020
      Replying to @wcrichton

      I'm not sure that's entirely true. In OCaml, I feel like the abstraction tools are powerful in a way that in some sense reduces the need for macros.

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    7. Yaron (Ron) Minsky‏ @yminsky 17 Oct 2020
      Replying to @yminsky @wcrichton

      Type safe eDSLs being a prime example.

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      Will Crichton‏ @wcrichton 19 Oct 2020
      Replying to @yminsky

      Agreed, macros are not a general necessity but a crutch for less expressive type systems. Eg - Rust macros to stamp out impls for tuples of size 1 to 32 - C macros to emulate polymorphic containers - “deriving” pragmas in most languages

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