Each to their own, but we have always started with 10-20 example cases that
we'd like to be really "well fitted" and "nice", plus a few possible "powerful
principles". I.e "expressiveness" is usually the main aim. If this seems to be
promising then there are lots of ways to approach fast-enough implementation
(including making new hardware or using FPGAs, etc.)
Cheers,
Alan
>________________________________
> From: Loup Vaillant-David <l...@loup-vaillant.fr>
>To: Alan Kay <alan.n...@yahoo.com>; Fundamentals of New Computing
><fonc@vpri.org>
>Cc: karl ramberg <karlramb...@gmail.com>
>Sent: Monday, November 4, 2013 4:00 PM
>Subject: Modern General Purpose Programming Language (Was: Task management in
>a world without apps.)
>
>
>On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 04:11:15AM -0800, Alan Kay wrote:
>
>> if we were to attempt an ultra high level general purpose language
>> today, we wouldn't use Squeak or any other Smalltalk as a model or a
>> starting place.
>
>May I ask what would be an acceptable starting point? Maru, maybe?
>
>Loup.
>
>
>
>
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