Am 01.05.2014 um 10:31 schrieb Wolfgang Lux: > > Am 01.05.2014 um 09:22 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: > >> Hi, >> >> Am 01.05.2014 um 02:21 schrieb Kevin Ingwersen: >> >>> Hey! >>> >>> To explain this subject just a little. I come from actual web development - >>> my roots are deeply in PHP. The only reason I ever learned C++, followed by >>> C, was due to the need to write a php extension. But due to my C++ >>> lectures, I came across objective-c, and fell in love with its syntax, >>> basicaly x). But this made me ask the following question: >>> >>> Why is this not available in scripting? >>> >>> A year later, I had to ask: >>> >>> Is it even possible to use a scripting language, based on ObjC syntax, >>> outside of OS X? >>> >>> To be honest, why is there none? Objective-C is a great language - not just >>> for GUI coding. I find that its named parameters are a key-concept. It >>> simply makes function calls so much more understandable - even when you >>> return to your project a year later. My favorite example that I show >>> friends is an actual person. See: >>> >>> Mother* mom = [[Mother alloc] init]; >>> [mom pleaseBring:@"beer" to:@"Sofa" withAmount:1]; >>> >>> I do not need to explain this, do I :) >>> >>> But, I have not given up. Years after my discovery, I have had times where >>> I took google searches…and at a random sudden, Objective-J was created! >>> This is one amazing concept, as I see it. But the downside: You can’t embed >>> it. >>> >>> So I wanted to ask this Objective-C community here: Is there a viable, >>> cross-platform, scripting language with actual ObjC syntax? If not - why! :) >> >> I am not aware of any Obj-C interpreter. >> >> But there is Fscript: http://www.fscript.org/ >> >> which is some scripting language to inspect and manipulate Obj-C objects. >> >> But it uses a different syntax and appears to be the opposite of what you >> are looking for. > > Fscript is a dialect of Smalltalk, so the syntax is much like that of > Objective-C, except you don't need the square brackets. :-)
This makes me wonder if the parser could be extended to *optionally* accept square brackets to make learning (and copy&paste of algorithms) easier. > Incidentally, GNUstep for long has its own scripting environment, which uses > Smalltalk as well: StepTalk. > It's just a bit poorly maintained and AFAICT currently doesn't work on OS X. Oh, nice! I didn't know. -- hnd _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
