On 19 Feb 2008, at 5:11 pm, John Cowan wrote:
Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit:
I'd like to implement this on terms of a FORTH-inspired VM, with
implementations of the VM that interpret it or go to native code.
I take it you have read http://www.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/
ForthStack.html ?
Aye! Good
Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit:
> I'd like to implement this on terms of a FORTH-inspired VM, with
> implementations of the VM that interpret it or go to native code.
I take it you have read http://www.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/ForthStack.html ?
--
John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://ccil.org/~cowan
On 18 Feb 2008, at 8:05 pm, Mark Fredrickson wrote:
I've been looking for my "go to" language for a long time. Ruby was
a strong candidate, but Scheme takes what I like about Ruby and
gives me more options. I looked at CL but found it weird and
inconsistent. The little things matter. Now, I pla
On 19 Feb 2008, at 2:13 am, Graham Fawcett wrote:
The 6502 was the only CPU I ever really programmed assembly for. I
had read about cellular automata (probably Conway's Game of Life,
and probably in a Martin Gardner book)
Yay for Martin Gardner books! I also learnt a lot of fun things from
th
On 18 Feb 2008, at 6:45 pm, Peter Bex wrote:
A little painful to admit, but I started out with BASIC on the C64,
then got
a PC with QBASIC/QuickBASIC, then my first "real" language: C. I
stuck with
C for a long long time until I learned Scheme at university. That
was love
at first sight and I
On Feb 18, 2008 1:45 PM, Peter Bex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 05:03:47PM -0500, Graham Fawcett wrote:
> > The CL community has a "My Road to Lisp" meme, where CL users write up a
> > quick story on how they "arrived". I'd *love* to hear people's My Road
> to
> > Chicken s
Mark Fredrickson scripsit:
> Rexx (I never discovered if this was a real language or just a
> teaching tool at my school.
Very real. At one time it was the only scripting-style language
supported on OS/2, and it still exists in several forms, one of which
(NetRexx) runs on the Java VM.
See h
On Feb 18, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Peter Bex wrote:
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 05:03:47PM -0500, Graham Fawcett wrote:
The CL community has a "My Road to Lisp" meme, where CL users write
up a
quick story on how they "arrived". I'd *love* to hear people's My
Road to
Chicken stories.
Pre-universit
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 05:03:47PM -0500, Graham Fawcett wrote:
> The CL community has a "My Road to Lisp" meme, where CL users write up a
> quick story on how they "arrived". I'd *love* to hear people's My Road to
> Chicken stories.
A little painful to admit, but I started out with BASIC on the C
heh, my serious trajectory was ... gw-basic (bleh!), logo, lpc, c, c++, scheme,
prolog, scheme, java, scheme, lisp, scheme, scheme, scheme...
(feel free to sing this to monty python's spam song, or to the 4-2-1 problem
if youd rather...)
... and my job is also (unfortunately) mostly c++ based.
> For the record, my language trajectory (where I've actually written serious
> code) is C, Java, Python, Lisp, Scheme.
Mine was Pascal, C, C++, Java, Scheme (omitted less-serious stuff:
Logo, BASIC and Fortran from high school, Prolog, Perl... I've never
spent a lot of time with Perl but use it o
On Feb 16, 2008 8:11 AM, Hans Nowak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mark Fredrickson wrote:
> > I suggest we draft Hans (http://4.flowsnake.org/) for the Python doc.
> :-)
> I was actually going to write such a document last year... the Python
> programmer's guide to Chicken, or something. As it tur
Mark Fredrickson wrote:
With a high probibility that Chicken users will be coming from other
PLs, I think a series of "Chicken for Python Programmers", "Chicken for
Ruby Programmers", etc could be very helpful. Where are my hashes? How
do I do string concatenation? Where are my objects? These
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