Re: Designing Lisp from scratch

Mark Shirley <[email protected]> Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:16:47 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.lightweight
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It's in the paper entitled Making COLAs with Pepsi and Coke (a white 
paper advocating widespread unreasonable behavior) 
<http://piumarta.com/papers/colas-whitepaper.pdf>, Ian Piumarta.
 Mark Shirley
 NASA Ames Research Center

[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 <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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