I will review anything you write.
I should redo the tutorial to get better at parsing.
Stef
Le 29/7/16 à 23:22, Thierry Goubier a écrit :
Le 29/07/2016 à 21:18, stepharo a écrit :
Thierry
I started a Smacc chapter in the PharoInProgress book.
Ok. I'll have a look if I can contribute during my holidays...
Thierry
Stef
Le 29/7/16 à 15:56, Thierry Goubier a écrit :
2016-07-29 15:32 GMT+02:00 Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu
<mailto:s...@stfx.eu>>:
> On 29 Jul 2016, at 14:23, Thierry Goubier
<thierry.goub...@gmail.com <mailto:thierry.goub...@gmail.com>>
wrote:
>
> Hi Sven,
>
> I'd put RB + SmaCC among the lot. But I consider that really
non-trivial : the pattern language of RB (and the underlying
pattern matching and unification algorithm) is top notch, and how
SmaCC builds on RB to virtually generate code / optimise code /
then compile is nothing short of amazing.
>
> SmaCC comes with a pattern matching/unification algorithm over
ASTs + auto-generation of AST code + visitor + tree equality + the
equivalent of Flex/Bison(*) + a GUI in 11401 lines of code.
Well, you don't need to convince me that there is some really
magic code out there, thanks for pointing this out. People should
really do more effort to promote the stuff they like, by writing
some nice accessible article about it. (Hint, hint).
Understood :)
The problem is that even though Smalltalk itself is simple, the
whole environment, being super dynamic/flexible, is not. It scares
a lot of people that they cannot really grab and hold the code. It
is only once you get beyond that initial hurdle (which also
requires you to unlearn/learn a new approach), that you can start
to explore and appreciate all the good stuff. I am still not sure
how we can make this clear to newcomers, but it feels like a
critical step.
Maybe there is a question of coding style coupled with the tools?
Thierry
> Thierry
>
> (*) And a true equivalent, with LR, LALR and GLR !
>
> 2016-07-29 14:05 GMT+02:00 Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu
<mailto:s...@stfx.eu>>:
> <Social Media Marketing>
>
> The following interesting question/thread could use some more
comments/votes:
>
> Ask HN: Examples of elegant, non-trivial Smalltalk? | Hacker News
>
> > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12185892
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12185892>
>
> Sven
>
