Re: Designing Lisp from scratch

 
Thanks.  I'd like to look into the "combined object-lambda" info that  you 
mentioned.  However, on the page you gave, I saw Alan Kay's name under  the 
Fundamental New Computing Technologies section, but I didn't see anything  that 
looks like "combined object-lambda".  Is this info contained in the  grant 
proposal PDF file, or somewhere else on the site?
 
Daniel Corbier
uCalc Language Builder
_www.ucalc.com_ (http://www.ucalc.com)   
 
In a message dated 3/5/07 1:17:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
[email protected] writes:

See the  "combined object-lambda" work being led by Alan  Kay.
http://vpri.org/html/writings.htm ("Fundamental New Computing  Technologies" 
section)

By the way, in a considerably less ambitious  project, I had a lot of fun in 
the 
mid-90's creating a MOP implementation  of, essentially, the chapter 3 
compiler 
of Queinnec's LiSP book. Each  operation was a generic function of 
expression, 
environment, and  continuation, specialized for various subclasses of each. 
Compilers and  interpreters for various languages all reused the same  code.




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