Re: [Felix-language] [felix] Good bits

2013-02-19 Thread Dobes Vandermeer
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:41 PM, john skaller < skal...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > On 19/02/2013, at 5:54 PM, Dobes Vandermeer wrote: > > > It's just my opinion, but I don't think you have the resources to > produce a useful product for everybody. > > In my opinion I don't have the resourc

Re: [Felix-language] [felix] Good bits

2013-02-19 Thread john skaller
On 20/02/2013, at 6:05 AM, Dobes Vandermeer wrote: > In my opinion I don't have the resources to produce a useful product for > ANYBODY. > That's why I keep asking for help. It takes a team to make even a modest > programming > language: compiler, libraries, docs, infrastructure management, mar

[Felix-language] flx upgrade

2013-02-19 Thread john skaller
One of the decisions I did make about how to market Felix was that the best way to improve the language, the libraries, and the tooling, was to actually use Felix to write some interesting tools. At least when one of my friends asked yesterday what it could be used for I could give him the link to

Re: [Felix-language] flx upgrade

2013-02-19 Thread john skaller
On 20/02/2013, at 4:40 PM, john skaller wrote: > > So now we would like to co-develop, so we can do this: > > flx base.cpp top.cpp script.flx here we go: stage 1: // mylib.cpp #include void myfun () { printf("Hello this is myfun C++\n"); } //

[Felix-language] Lua

2013-02-19 Thread john skaller
Just FYI: I once worked on Lua. It was a while back, when the coroutines were working reasonably well and people were pretty excited. Yep, Lua had (and probably still has) coroutines. They were also trying to replace the collector with a modern copying collector, which was a disaster. It was har