ANTLRWorks is like crack. I am trying to build a bastard child of ml and ruby and maybe a little scheme mixed back in for good measure. One of my favorite features from haskell is the pattern matching which seems like a no brainer for adding to a scripting language.
I have also been picking up ruby lately and its surprising how good it is. Some people compare it to being similar to python. This is not the case--it has a lot more delicious features. Succulent indeed.
Then there is groovy which is subtly disappointing but sure as shit beats writing actual java but not by enough. At least java makes sense in its own crippled and ridiculous way.
Try passing a function as a value in groovy from inside it self. Sure it has whatever hack is needed for recursion but apparently it is only half-baked. Very disappointing. How am I supposed to use recursion in conjunction with higher order functions? I may post something somewhere so it can some how get fixed. Its kind of embarrassing to bring up so it seems more sensible just to make my own language (yup I am crazy).
Wont someone please think of the functions!
Anyways ANTLR is awesome and I am sleepy. I will probably post more of whatever language I cook up if it ever amounts to anything.
