Hey All, I'd like to put together a CD to hand out at the BBQ containing the source and docs for all languages that the members of this list are working on. If...
... I'm also planning to be at the Lisp Conference so depending on when I arrive may be able to make the BBQ. Can you provide more details on how to get their?...
Hi Steve, This is great! I would happily throw in a couple of extra bucks to make an extra dozen or so copies, for the lisp conference and OOPSLA (you never ...
... Ok, I'll make an extra 20. ... I'd like to get entries from everyone fairly soon but I'll hold off on burning the CDs until a few days before the BBQ. So...
Please vote in the BBQ poll if you haven't already: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/langsmiths/surveys?id=10920931 The poll closes tomorrow. So far we've got 1...
I just voted. I wish I could drop by but I work weekends :| A language is still brewing in my head, but I've been sidetracked with some opengl experiments....
I wish to attend such things but I am not in America. Mohammed ... From: "Mike" <mike_ekim@...> To: <langsmiths@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, October...
... keywords ... The semantics or the syntax, or the connection between the two? This semantics (relational calls having a distinguished argument that can be...
Hi... I am sure you are talented developers and I would like to be at least the same level of expertise as you. How would I do it? Can you suggest some books,...
I think it would be interesting if each developer of an imperative language in this group, except Slate, would tell your one favorite feature or characteristic...
Hi all, WanteObject Oriented Developers, visit www.techieindex.net providing one stop resource for IT Professionals. If you find similar site let me know. ...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/public_links/files/ People/jack_waugh/Computers/symmetry-bad.html If you paste the above URL back together and follow it, you...
I should think it advisable, before thinking about defining any new programming languages, to become good at programming applications in existing programming...
... sorry to hear that, the idea had seemed pretty cool. though not so advanced work continues on my lang. major changes seem rare right now, so mostly I have...
I still haven't pinpointed my syntax yet (cough), but I would like it to be a mix of Python's syntax and lisp structure with Smalltalk's message syntax and...
I suppose that the onus is on me to respond to these. :) ... That looks like python pretending to be Smalltalk and not at all like Lisp. Taking one idiom in...
... Mike, I like Ruby's syntax. It's goes something like this (sorry don't have a Ruby interpreter handy to check the syntax): 1.up_to(10).each { |i| print...
... When he doesn't parenthesize, he is making a call whose selector is "to:do:". The three arguments to that call are, in order, 1, 10, and the closure. ... ...
... Then perhaps the next step is to become familiar with various paradigms, such as functional programming and logic languages. Consider whether an existing...
The Joy programming language is sort of similar to OOP languages while being a very different kind of functional programming style, and it also struggles with...
Oh, and definitely study Lisp. I suppose any number of books on Lisp are good; I happen to have a copy of one by Berthold Claus Paul Horn. Study it deeply...
... A String in Slate is an Array, which is by default non-extensible. However, Slate also has Cords to catenate Sequences together in a scalable way. Another...
I see Joy as an interesting intellectual object, but I wouldn't want to program in it all the time. One looses track of what argument is where on the stack....
... Hi Ihsan, When I was looking for a similar book, someone recommended "The Essentials of Programming Languages". I bought this $40 book. It turned out to be...
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