First rudimentary version. Was: picolisp in java

2010-10-10 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi all, after two weekends of fiddling, I decided to release a first - very rudimentary - version of Ersatz Lisp, the Java version of PicoLisp. See ersatz/README. It is not really usable yet, because not more then just a hand full of functions are implemented. But most essential data structures

Re: First rudimentary version. Was: picolisp in java

2010-10-10 Thread Henrik Sarvell
It will be very interesting to see what this will lead to. Having a Java version might help PL a lot on the popularity front, it should completely bypass the catch 22 problem of low interest due to to few libraries and few libraries due to low interest. /Henrik On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 3:00 PM,

Re: First rudimentary version. Was: picolisp in java

2010-10-10 Thread Jon Kleiser
Hi, I tried to run ersatz/picolisp on my Mac, but it didn't turn out too well: $ ersatz/picolisp Exception in thread main java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at

Re: First rudimentary version. Was: picolisp in java

2010-10-10 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, Exception in thread main java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file It seems that this error occurs if the java runtime version is older than that of the classes in the JAR file. $ java -version java version 1.5.0_24 I have here: $ java -version

Re: First rudimentary version. Was: picolisp in java

2010-10-10 Thread Jon Kleiser
Hi Alex, Yes, building a new JAR made it. Thanks! /Jon Hi Jon, Exception in thread main java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file It seems that this error occurs if the java runtime version is older than that of the classes in the JAR file. $ java