Demo for a discussion I had with my PL prof.

"Converge is a dynamically typed object orientated programming language with compile-time meta-programming facilities - put simply, Converge has a macro-like facility that can embed domain specific languages with arbitrary syntaxes into source files."

Executing pastebin!

"the bigger problem is cultural: it's hard to restrain metadata addiction"

fread(), readfile(), file() - Guess which does what. Argh.

"Principle: Powerful languages inhibit information reuse."

"it’s starting to look like type declarations are one of those accidental difficulties that good programming languages can eliminate"

"Loop statements may have an else clause; it is executed when the loop terminates through exhaustion of the list (with for) or when the condition becomes false (with while), but not when the loop is terminated by a break statement."

Functional programming abstracts away massively parallel computation

Argues that PHP is a bloated template system. Right on.

with errors, but still useful

Comparison of core language features

absolutely ridiculous