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What makes our language unique? How about we add these few things.... #1

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christopher-haueter opened this issue Mar 25, 2013 · 0 comments

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christopher-haueter commented Mar 25, 2013

There are already a few things that make our language unique. They are:

the probability selection
probabilistic value
the terminating condition / function call syntax

I don't think the blocks are actually are innovations. More like dictatorial fiats.

A few new things Bo and I agree would make our language more unique are:

the "magical accumulator" that is outside of control flow
a declarative syntax for what data is to be accumulated (informs the accumulator)
a declarative syntax for the analysis of the accumulated data (utilizes accumulated data)

Why?

less complexity
separation of simulation and analysis (like HTML and CSS)
backend injects the proper accumulation code, AND implements the analysis

@mnrubin @etanzapinsky @meirf @captainbox22

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