On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 18:20 -0500, Chris King wrote: > On 2/27/07, skaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This project is pending death. 7 years of my life > > is enough to waste. > > If you cease to develop Felix I will personally make a fork of it and > continue its development on my own, even at the expense of my own > project. Just yesterday I was experimenting with coding type-safe > generic matrix multiplication using Felix typeclasses. I am totally > unwilling to let a language which lets me do that die out.
Haskell has typeclasses. But you don't need to make a fork, you could just become a developer. > I know I'm > not the only one who feels that way. I know it does lots of good things :) But it isn't a matter of not letting it die out. It's already dead. Rather .. undead. It's never been born. > As it stands right now unfortunately I can only use Felix in my spare > time. However I am nearing the point where I feel I know enough of > the syntax and semantics that I could make a short document with an > organized overview of *every* construct in the language (cf. Part II > of the O'Caml manual). I feel that such a "quick reference" would > help many potential developers who are familiar with the concepts used > in Felix but don't know the syntax to learn the language. (Currently > most of the information is in the docs but is scattered between the > reference, tutorial, web site, and header files.) There's one heck of a lot of stuff not in any docs: there aren't even test cases. I mean I wrote test cases but never put them in the repository. > Don't give up hope just yet, you may not have reached "critical mass" > with the number of developers but I don't see it as very far off. The thing is there is only ONE developer: me. There were 3 before. It isn't a snowball rolling down a hill gathering momentum: it's an ice-cream left out in the outback sun. There are at least 30 unfinished jobs to be done in the compiler along. In a mad working spree recently I actually finished 3 of them. -- John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net> Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
