Re: Designing Lisp from scratch

Yes, all three papers in that section are about "COLA".
There's also some stuff floating around the Web about "coke" and  
"pepsi" related to Smalltalk, and presentations by Ian Piumarta  
(e.g., at Stanford).

On Mar 5, 2007, at 6:16 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> 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
>
> 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.
>
>