Thank you for the response professor, really appreciate it from one of the creators of the language itself;
I did give your document a read and my (naive) understanding is you basically create DSLs for each sub-part of the problem you're trying to solve?
>A LOP-based software system consists of multiple, cooperating components, each written in domain-specific languages.
and
>cooperating
multi-lingual components must respect the invariants that each
participating language establishes.
So basically you're enforcing rules/checks at the language level rather than compile time?
How would you recommend a complete novice attain this sort of state of mind/thought process while working in this language? Because my thoughts go simply to creating types and enforcing type-checking coupled with pure functions to avoid successful-fail at runtime programs.
Also how would one navigate the complexity of multiple abstractions while debugging?
The paper also mentions a web-server language (footnote 27), if I use racket will I be productive "out of the box" or is the recommended path to take is writing a web server language first.
Thank you again for taking the time to respond, and please do forgive me for these naive questions.
I did give your document a read and my (naive) understanding is you basically create DSLs for each sub-part of the problem you're trying to solve?
>A LOP-based software system consists of multiple, cooperating components, each written in domain-specific languages.
and
>cooperating multi-lingual components must respect the invariants that each participating language establishes.
So basically you're enforcing rules/checks at the language level rather than compile time?
How would you recommend a complete novice attain this sort of state of mind/thought process while working in this language? Because my thoughts go simply to creating types and enforcing type-checking coupled with pure functions to avoid successful-fail at runtime programs.
Also how would one navigate the complexity of multiple abstractions while debugging?
The paper also mentions a web-server language (footnote 27), if I use racket will I be productive "out of the box" or is the recommended path to take is writing a web server language first.
Thank you again for taking the time to respond, and please do forgive me for these naive questions.