Re: reports of Lout's death somewhat exaggerated

Hi Jeff,

Nice to hear you again. What about implementing Nonpareil as a domain-specific language embedded in some language you like? That way you wouldn't need to worry about writing a compiler. See for example:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/funcmp

https://wiki.haskell.org/Embedded_domain_specific_language

(I don't mean you use Haskell. There are lots of functional-OO languages, if you prefer those.)

Best regards,

Antonio


On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 07:23:24AM +1100, Jeff Kingston wrote:
>Dear Lout users,
>
>Funny, I sent this email to the list yesterday but I
>don't see it today.  Anyway here it is again.
>
>Just to give you my view of the current state of Lout.
>
>Lout still works, and I'm still here, but there have been no
>new bug reports or requests for features for several years now.
>I couldn't do much with them anyway at the moment, owing to
>some changed family circumstances which have reduced the time
>I have to work - unless there was something really wrong (but
>we would have found that long ago).
>
>I am currently working on a replacement for Lout which I call
>Nonpareil.  Sadly, some years ago Nonpareil took a rather
>dramatic detour into support for compilers for object-oriented
>languages (which Nonpareil is).  I have worked on this for
>years but nothing is available yet, nor will it be until I
>am happy that it all hangs together.
>
>When Nonpareil (the programming language) is working I will
>go on to Nonpareil (the wysiwyg document editing system).
>Around that time the project should open out into something
>more collaborative.  But I'm too old and wise to predict
>when that will be.
>
>Jeff Kingston
>[email protected]