Re: Designing Lisp from scratch

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.

[email protected] wrote:
> I believe somehow, that it should be possible to have a language that is 
> specifically designed for constructing other languages, in a process 
> that is significantly simpler than what I typically find when I browse 
> through language construction code written in things like C or other.
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> I'm currently working on such a language, and would like some feedback 
> on what I've done so far.  I noticed that there appears to be a vibrant 
> Lisp user base here, and some are also interested in the language design 
> process.  So I now have an implementation of Lisp that takes only a few 
> screens-full of code, which you can load right up so that you have a 
> fully interactive Lisp interpreter.
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> (For Lisp, I have chosen an unusual approach, which is meant primarily 
> to demonstrate the simplicity of the language construction process, at 
> the expense of efficiency.  Once you get the hang of it, you can 
> re-design Lisp in various possible ways.  Speed won't be an issue either 
> way if you are simply pasting the kind of sample code you might find in 
> a Lisp introductory tutorial).
>  
> I look forward to hearing from people here.  (Visit www.ucalc.com 
> <http://www.ucalc.com> to download the March 2007 beta).
>  
> Daniel Corbier
> uCalc Language Builder
> http://www.ucalc.com
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