Re: Moose Role Call

On Jan 23, 2008, at 9:37 PM, Matt S Trout wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 06:47:53AM -0800, John Napiorkowski wrote:
>> I thought we were calling it a post modern object
>> system now?  Which for me brought on a panic attack,
>> recalling my post modern literary criticism class from
>> my grad school days.
>
> I call it "Meta object orientation and syntax entensions" :)
>

I call it "Most Orangutans Order Szhechuan Entrees" :)

I understand they like the spicy stuff.

Although to be (kinda) serious, the post-modern bit is because really  
a "modern" OO system is something like Java or C#, which is (at this  
point) rather boring and straight forward. Moose aims to push past  
those languages, dragging along with it things from CLOS, BETA,  
Smalltalk, Perl 6, etc. It builds upon the "modern" OO systems, and  
looks for the next step, hence the "post".

Also, Post-modern (at least in the fine-art world) tends to include a  
lot of appropriation and recontextualization (see Pop-art, Neo- 
Dadaism, the painting revival in the 80s, etc). Moose steals stuff  
from many other languages (appropriation) and attempts to put it into  
a perl-ish context (recontextualization), so in that sense also I see  
it as post-modern.

And lastly, post-modernism tends to be a lot more fun and less stuffy  
then modernism :)

- Stevan