Hi John Alex Warth and Jamie Douglass co-wrote a paper on "Pack Rat Parsers" a few years ago ....
I asked you because you like to poke around both in the present and in the past. Cheers, Alan ________________________________ From: John Zabroski <johnzabro...@gmail.com> To: Fundamentals of New Computing <fonc@vpri.org>; jamie.dougl...@boeing.com Sent: Mon, April 11, 2011 8:21:06 PM Subject: Re: [fonc] Question about OMeta On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Alan Kay <alan.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: But now you are adding some side conditions :) > >For example, if you want comparable or even better abstractions in the target >language, then there is a lot more work that has to be done (and I don't know >of >a great system that has ever been able to do this well e.g. to go from an >understandable low level meaning to really nice code using the best >abstractions >of the target language). Maybe John Z knows? > Alan, There was a guy at SPLASH 2010 that was talking about wanting to build such a system. I think he was a researcher at Boeing, but he came across as so practically minded that I thought he was a programmer just like me. I don't know why you thought I specifically would have any ideas on this... but... Tell me your thoughts on http://www.ics.uci.edu/~nlopezgi/flexitools/papers/douglass_flexitools_splash2010.pdf I am surprised you didn't mention this above since he uses Squeak for the bootstrap. I suggested at SPLASH that he contact you (VPRI, really), especially when you consider how close by you are. As for UNCOL, I have Sammet's book on programming and there are some really interesting conferences from the 1950s that are covered in the preface/disclaimer. Well, at least I think it's the book that mentions it. Either way I couldn't easily look up these references or find proceedings from conferences in the 1950s.
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