But what about your Promise?

See what i did there? Err... yeah, i know it's horrible. I apologize.

I did want to post an update about Promise since I've gone radio-silent since I finished up my series about features and syntax. I've started a deep dive into the DLR, but mostly got sidetracked with learning antlr since I don't want to build the AST by hand for testing. However, coming up with a grammar for Promise is the real stumbling block. So that's where i'm currently at, spending a couple of hours here and there playing with antlr and the grammar.

In the meantime, I've been doing more ruby coding over the last couple of weeks and even dove back into perl for some stuff and the one thing I am more sure is that I find dynamically code incredibly tedious to work with. The lack of static analysis and even simple contracts turns dynamic programming into a task of memorization, terse syntax and text search/replace. I'm not saying that the static type systems of yore are not equally painful with the hoops you have to jump through to explain contracts with any flexibility to the compiler, but given the choice I tend towads that end. This experience just solidifies my belief that a type system like Promise, i.e. types describe contracts, but classes aren't typed other than by their ability to quack appropriately, would be so much more pleasant.