On January 23, 2012 at 2:02 PM Jon Kleiser <jon.klei...@usit.uio.no> wrote:
> > I like having the possibility to make use of Java solutions (e.g. the > Swing GUI) from Ersatz PicoLisp, but please don't tell anyone that "it > allows you to integrate with any legacy system" before we have done any > such integration at all! Feel free to give us an example. ;-) I have not. I meant, that this is a possible direction to get more jobs. > > I have until now ignored the state of the art with regards to the > > Java > > flavor of PicoLisp, but when reading about your job peril, I take > > more > > interest in it, since I have found that the "Java" word opens doors. > > In this case it actually is a blessing that that "Java" is such an > > ambiguous word - is it "Java"? Yes, it runs on the Java runtime. > > Check. > > Do we really want to "sell" PicoLisp that way? Why not? Really, marketing is about getting attention. Attention span is short. I think they will be glad to discover that PicoLisp is so much more than just a "Java appendage" like so many other languages. What a happy surprise if Groovy, Clojure, Ceylon, Coldfusion, Joy, and Scala all had standalone runtimes independent of any JVM! But PicoLisp does! > How quickly do you think you could get an Ersatz PicoLisp based Android > app out? And how would that dev. time compare to what it would take to > write a similar app in plain old Java? Again - I did not mean to misrepresent anything. That would take me some time, for sure. But I would imagine if A. Burger made one app like that, the second would be way faster. Possibly it would not even entail a recompile... :-) > If Ersatz PicoLisp should be fit for writing the stuff that you're > thinking of, then I think you would need some way to extend existing > Java classes, and override existing methods. I don't think this is > possible today. Please inform me if I'm wrong. I don't know these things... but it could gain those capabilities, nothing in PicoLisp inherently stops it. Or add PicoLisp to the list of languages supported by ASE: http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/ I am trying to brainstorm ways for people (Burger) to make a living with PicoLisp as a tool. best regards, Jakob -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
