Re: P.S. Re: [fonc] bootstrapping B

2011-04-13 Thread Christopher Bratlien
I'm enjoying this thread. The bcompiler tutorial blew my mind. Thirsty for more, I found this hands-on tutorial for Meta II which also gives the reader a web-browser environment (a Metacompiler Workshop, similar to Alessandro Warth's OMeta/JS webpage) for playing with Meta II. Tutorial

Re: [fonc] bootstrapping B

2011-04-13 Thread Shawn Morel
On Apr 9, 2011, at 7:44 PM, Alan Kay wrote: These approaches are always fun to look at. A good question here is whether this many-level scheme is better than to pick something like a simple Lisp-like or OMeta-like language (e.g. it came from Meta II, which is really simple) that can

[fonc] Off topic? (maybe not) [ANN] Seattle Smalltalk Users Group

2011-04-13 Thread Casey Ransberger
Rather than just cross post the announcement I made on squeak-dev, I figured I'd write a separate note for this list. I've been thinking about trying to identify like-minded programmers in my area. I go to the local Ruby and Perl groups from time to time, and I often feel like I'm hijacking the

RE: [fonc] Question about OMeta

2011-04-13 Thread Douglass, Jamie
John, Language of Languages (LoLs) presented during the FlexiTools workshop at SPLASH 2010 uses a CAT parser. CAT (which is now Contextual Attributed Translator) is very similar to OMeta. It continues the work Alex Warth and I wrote about Left Recursion with Pack Rat Parsers. The current