On Nov 23, 2007, at 12:22 AM, Stéphane Conversy wrote:
I still don't fully understand the goal of fonc/idst (or COLA ? or LOLA ?)
Think of it as 'factory tooling'. If you have a lathe and a milling machine you can build lathes and milling machines easily; without them, building the same tools is much harder. *OLA is (converging on ;-) the minimal programming language tooling needed to make (very easily) new programming languages, with minimal assumptions (static, dynamic, incremental, offline, etc...), including itself (in its entirety). The properties that fall out from this make it attractive for any programming task, not just language implementation.
(Interesting thing about tooling: it often ends up begin more valuable than the artefacts that it manufactured.)
Cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
