Hi, I just wanted to get a little bit more about this out on the list since: I like this list, the people on it, and the projects. To be fair, this will be the...
Dru Nelson
dru@...
Jan 1, 2001 10:13 am
906
... Hi! ... "I'll create a language..., it will be fun!" How many projects start this way ??? :-) Scratch that itch! Take a long look at Kevo if you can...
Kyle
kyle_hayes@...
Jan 1, 2001 7:32 pm
907
Diego Gomez Deck wrote: ... So do I. Nobody more than I does. But I want it immediately!! Happy New Millenium for you too!!! Albertina ... -- ...
Albertina Lourenci
lourenci@...
Jan 2, 2001 11:59 am
908
... Indeed even for me more people interested in prototypes and doing research in prototypes is welcome!!! The only hurdle for me is that from now on I shall...
Albertina Lourenci
lourenci@...
Jan 2, 2001 2:03 pm
909
... I would like to sit in on such a meeting myself. I have been considering a language design based on prototyping and implmented with partial compilation/JIT...
First Speaker Schol-R...
scholr@...
Jan 3, 2001 11:58 am
910
... Me too. Steve...
Steve Dekorte
steve@...
Jan 3, 2001 8:50 pm
911
Interesting stuff! - Dave ... -- David Ungar Sun Microsystems Laboratories (650) 336-2618...
David Ungar
David.Ungar@...
Jan 4, 2001 6:02 am
912
... This is great! I think that this list is the right place for discussions of Self-like languages like this, Kyle's TSOL and Joseph Osako's ideas. Here is a ...
Jecel Assumpcao Jr
jecel@...
Jan 4, 2001 7:25 pm
913
... I've been working on a project that uses a small language(Lua) that has enough hooks to turn it into a prototype-based language. We've also embedded it in...
Steve Dekorte
steve@...
Jan 4, 2001 7:47 pm
914
... Yes, Avail is interesting. There was an ongoing thread about it on the Concatenative mailing list for a while. Since Self brought prototypes into focus...
Kyle
kyle_hayes@...
Jan 6, 2001 3:22 am
915
Though the point has been made before, it is interesting to see what other older languages have some similarity (at least conceptually) to Self. Forth is the...
Kyle
kyle_hayes@...
Jan 6, 2001 6:41 pm
916
... Interesting. After the last rebuke, I came to the opposite conclusion - that this list, being specifically about Self, should be primarily about Self. It...
First Speaker Schol-R...
scholr@...
Jan 7, 2001 11:57 pm
917
... In accordance with The Law of the Prophet Murphy, it was only after I set up MFTL that I learned that there already is an eGroups list for this sort of...
First Speaker Schol-R...
scholr@...
Jan 8, 2001 12:04 am
918
... What does MFTL mean? Are you going to continue with this group or use Language-Wars instead? I agree that this shouldn't become a general language...
Jecel Assumpcao Jr
jecel@...
Jan 8, 2001 3:48 pm
919
... Well, what I really think is that computer science is rather looking like a Babel Tower. When I joined the Workshop of the PHD students in OO programming...
Albertina Lourenci
lourenci@...
Jan 8, 2001 6:00 pm
920
... <PLUG TYPE="shameless"><A HREF="http://www.tunes.org">The TUNES Project</A></PLUG> Seriously, this is what I am working on (Jecel also participates when he...
Brian Rice
water@...
Jan 8, 2001 6:30 pm
921
Kyle, for the 37380 methods in the Demo snapshot, we have this distribution of source length (31886, or 85%, are less than 1000 bytes long): 0-99...
Jecel Assumpcao Jr
jecel@...
Jan 8, 2001 9:37 pm
922
... I downloaded "Metaprogramming and free availability of sources. Two challenges for computing today + Why a new operating system? + The TUNEs glossary. I...
Albertina Lourenci
lourenci@...
Jan 9, 2001 2:42 pm
923
Dear Self-ers: Following Brian Rice's excellent proposal that obviously enhances my own viewpoints on the Babel effect in the currently state of the art in...
Albertina Lourenci
lourenci@...
Jan 10, 2001 3:35 pm
924
... Hmm... I've been thinking about metaprogramming lately, and though I think meta facilities in a language increase the expressiveness of the language, I'm...
cramakrishnan@...
Jan 11, 2001 12:44 am
925
... Interesting. Note quite what I was thinking about, but still quite interesting. These are a bit shorter than I was thinking, but these are bytes not...
Kyle
kyle_hayes@...
Jan 11, 2001 4:19 am
926
... Interesting. Note quite what I was thinking about, but still quite interesting. These are a bit shorter than I was thinking, but these are bytes not...
Kyle
kyle_hayes@...
Jan 11, 2001 4:51 am
927
... I am in agree!!! The problem with me to withstand an in-depth discussion in computer science is that for a question of mental health, I have made up my...
Albertina Lourenci
lourenci@...
Jan 11, 2001 7:46 pm
928
... Actually, this alternate representation for objects (you called them arrays, but they look more like dictionaries to me) *is* reflection. It is just much...
Jecel Assumpcao Jr
jecel@...
Jan 12, 2001 3:34 pm
929
Hi selfers! this is my first post on this list, i used smalltalk for years and now i am very interested in self. i am using a iBook now so self for mac was my...
Andre Garzia
andregarzia@...
Jan 12, 2001 5:12 pm
930
... Thinking about this problem, I have created a CD-ROM with Self and 6 other Smalltalks. I haven't finished the user interface since I am waiting for Squeak...
Jecel Assumpcao Jr
jecel@...
Jan 12, 2001 6:09 pm
931
... This is a neat idea. Have you considered putting a bunch of the Self-like languages out there on it as well? Steve...
Steve Dekorte
steve@...
Jan 12, 2001 6:41 pm
932
... Actually, there is a very large spike for 10 line methods. That did seem odd, so I took a closer look at them. There were a lot of repeated methods - only...
Jecel Assumpcao Jr
jecel@...
Jan 12, 2001 7:11 pm
933
... They could easily fit, but they are so small that I wouldn't expect ... The version of the CD-ROM would always be outdated, so it makes more sense to...
Jecel Assumpcao Jr
jecel@...
Jan 12, 2001 10:10 pm
934
... Maybe just packing them up into a tar and putting them on the web... Steve...
