From: Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) (SeeWebsiteForEmail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-09 00:16:51
David Abrahams wrote:
> These all sound like moral judgements. Are pattern matching and
> recursion "good" while token-oriented computation is "bad?"
>
> Or are you getting at something else?
It's not moral judgment. It's simply what kind of language can be
understood with each, and what capabilities such a language can offer to
its user.
Andrei