Well, one of the authors, Gilad Bracha, has his own pet project language called Newspeak. He has a few papers to read there and I would bet that would give you some flavor of where he is coming from.
Monty On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:22 PM, BGB <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/12/2011 10:22 AM, John Zabroski wrote: >> >> A leaked Google memo from November 2010 [1] is being circulated around the >> Internet, outlining Google's supposed technical strategy for Web programming >> languages. >> >> Ironically, I saw this leak via a Google Alert keyword search. It has >> propagated to at least the Dzone social network since yesterday. >> >> Given how we've discussed in the past what a browser could/should/would >> look like if based on "fundamentals", it's interesting to see how groups in >> Google approach the problem. At least they can see a disease. >> >> [1] http://pastebin.com/NUMTTrKj >> > > I am left to wonder if my own language design efforts are "on the right > track"... > > my language is also sort of like JavaScript, and varies from JS regarding > its type-model and numeric types (optional types are nifty, and the > "everything is a double" thing in JS was kind of lame, so I didn't bother). > > granted, my implementation kind of sucks, but oh well... > > kind of wonder though what the language would look and act like, like if it > is more like JavaScript or more like ActionScript or more like Java or maybe > something entirely different?... > > > or such... > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
