On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 03:58:46PM -0800, Long Nguyen wrote:
Why you too proud? Hand compiling indeed sucks. I did it so you don't have
to. Now I'm offended.
But awesome work anyway.
Well, I had something to prove. :-)
Seriously though, I also wanted to make sure I understood how the damn
thing ran. I feared I may not have if I leant on your work. So, while
hand compiling does suck for practical purposes, the educational value
was worth it.
I will write a tutorial about the execution model so people don't need
to do hand compiling to understand it. Those who have something to
prove can suffer like I did (muhaha).
Now the next step (and my goal all along) is OMeta. Meta-II was
great, but it had a critical flaw: while it looks declarative, it is
imperative at the core. OMeta on the other hand is functional by
default: parsing something in OMeta yields a value, not an effect.
The result is much more modular and flexible.
(I wonder where Alex Warth gathered this golden outlook. Even James
Neighbor of Bayfront Technologies did not seem to have it, and he
wrote one hell of a tutorial:
http://www.bayfronttechnologies.com/mc_tutorial.html )
Anyway, thanks for the heads up!
Loup.
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