About

This blog was built to serve as a personal journal of my learning experience, since, well, I want to learn Alice.

Alice ML is a nice language, and it has the advantage of exposing the developer to a lot of ideas that are definitely uncommon in the common Java/C#/C++ scenario, and at the same time quite unusual even in the slightly more alternative python/ruby one.

Alice is:

• functional
• statically typed
• very high level (garbage collection, VM etc)
• concurrent
• interactive (REPL, GUI tools)
• distributed

and it also has support for constraint programming, a powerful module system, useful libraries for “modern” stuff like XML and SQL.

About me.. well, I’m just an italian student that likes to learn new things, and I thought that Alice would be great as my Language Of The Year for the 2006.

I’m not great at writing english and I’m a complete newbie with realtion to Alice, so please correct me whenever I write something wrong.

Thanks for coming here.