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On 27/02/2012, at 5:33 PM, BGB wrote: >> >> I don't think it was a prank. It's not really hidden at all. If you pay >> attention, all the components of Frank are there... like I said. It's >> obviously missing certain things like Nothing, and other optimisations, but >> for the most part, all the tech is present. > > sorry for asking, but is their any sort of "dense people friendly" version, > like maybe a description on the Wiki or something?... > > like, so people can get a better idea of "what things are about and how they > all work and fit together"?... (like, in the top-down description kind of > way?). > I don't think this is for people who aren't prepared to roll up their sleeves and try things out. For a start, learn SmallTalk. It's not hard. Go check out squeak. There are lots of resources to learn SmallTalk. > >> My major stumbling block at the moment is understanding OMeta fully. This is >> possibly the most amazing piece of work I've seen in a long, long time, and >> there's no easy explanation of it, and no really simple explanation of the >> syntax, either. There are the papers, and source code and the sandboxes, but >> I'm still trying to understand how to use it. It's kind of huge. I think >> perhaps I need to get a grounding in PEGs before I start on OMeta because >> there seems to be a lot of assumed knowledge there. Mostly I'm having >> trouble with the absolute, complete basics. >> >> Anyway I digress... have you had a look at this file?: >> >> http://piumarta.com/software/maru/maru-2.1/test-pepsi.l >> >> Just read the whole thing - I found it fairly interesting :) He's build >> pepsi on maru there... that's pretty fascinating, right? Built a micro >> smalltalk on top of the S-expression language... and then does a Fast >> Fourier Transform test using it... >> > > my case: looked some, but not entirely sure how it works though. > You could do what I've done, and read the papers and then re-read them and re-read them and re-read them... and research all references you find (the whole site is totally full of references to the entire of programming history). I personally think knowing LISP and SmallTalk, some assembler, C, Self, Javascript and other things is going to be incredibly helpful. Also, math is the most helpful! :) Julian
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