Actually, I hope to cite the Smalltalk work when I write about extensible syntax, rather than just extensible semantics.
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Dale Schumacher <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, absolutely! I've read that paper numerous times. Unfortunately, > I wasn't able to cite all of the branches of the LISP family tree. > > I _did_ cite Piumarta's work on Maru. His extensible base is much > smaller Shutt's, but Kernel provided a better illustration of > actor-based evaluation techniques. > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Alan Kay <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Dale >> Check out "The Early History of Smalltalk" to see the same insight about >> Lisp and how it was used to think about and define and implement >> Smalltalk-72. >> Cheers, >> Alan >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Dale Schumacher <[email protected]> >> To: Fundamentals of New Computing <[email protected]>; CAG >> <[email protected]>; Programming Language Design >> <[email protected]>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group >> <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 10:05 AM >> Subject: [fonc] Fexpr the Ultimate Lambda >> >> Fexpr the Ultimate Lambda (http://bit.ly/v6yTju) a treatise on >> evaluation, in honor of John McCarthy. >> >> John Shutt’s Kernel language, and its underlying Vau-calculus, is a >> simplified reformulation of the foundations of the LISP/Scheme family >> of languages. It is based on the notion that evaluation should be >> explicit, patterned after Fexprs, rather than implicit, using Lambda. >> The results is a powerful well-behaved platform for building >> extensible languages. Not extensible in syntax, but in semantics. We >> have implemented the key mechanisms of Vau-calculus using actors. The >> actor-based evaluation strategy introduces inherent concurrency >> prevasively throughout the evaluation process. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fonc mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fonc mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >> >> > _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
