I understand that AST-editing and even things like TurleScript are
cumbersome for many reasons, and that "trapped" is a good way to describe
their limitations. But automatically generating IDEs doesn't require the
IDEs it generates require rigid user inputs and modal interaction.
If anything, pla
This section at once both interests and bothers me
> The great Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel was once asked how he had
> become so good at mathematics. He replied that it was “by studying the
> masters, not their pupils”. The current essay is motivated by Abel’s
> admonishment. As a
Hi John
Yes you are right about Teitelbaum ...
As far as "Hansen" the time period is right -- but I think there were several
such ... the one I remember seeing was "syntax driven ..." There was a feeling
of being trapped ...
Cheers,
Alan
>
> From: John Zab
I would have to dust off my copy of the SG thesis, but I am pretty sure Tom
made allowances for free-form syntax editing as well. The major drawback
to using free-form syntax editing is that you get fewer guard conditions
when deciding grammatical correctness, and so error reporting and recovery
i
Yes, that was part of Tom's work ...
Cheers,
Alan
>
> From: John Zabroski
>To: Fundamentals of New Computing ; Alan Kay
>
>Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 4:46 PM
>Subject: Re: [fonc] Kernel & Maru
>
>
>What does it have to do with thinking about programming
By the way, I think you are referring to the work done by Reps's thesis
advisor, Tim Teitelbaum, and his Cornell Program Synthesizer. Teitelbaum
and Reps still work together to this day. Over a year ago I e-mailed Reps
asking, "Why did the Synthesizer Generator fail to become mainstream?"
Reps,
On 4/11/2012 11:14 PM, Josh Gargus wrote:
On Apr 8, 2012, at 7:31 PM, BGB wrote:
now, why, exactly, would anyone consider doing rendering on the server?...
One reason might be to amortize the cost of global illumination calculations.
Since much of the computation is view-independent, a Rea
FYI: Michael Nielsen wrote a large article "Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of
software", about the famous page 13 of the LISP 1.5 Programmer’s Manual; see
http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software/
The article is discussed on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/p
What does it have to do with thinking about programming? Are you referring
to editing an AST directly?
On Apr 12, 2012 7:31 PM, "Alan Kay" wrote:
> Hi John
>
> The simple answer is that Tom's stuff happened in the early 80s, and I was out
> of PARC working on things other than Smalltalk.
>
> I'm
Hi John
The simple answer is that Tom's stuff happened in the early 80s, and I was out
of PARC working on things other than Smalltalk.
I'm trying to remember something similar that was done earlier (by someone
can't recall who, maybe at CMU) that was a good convincer that this was not a
grea
It depends what your goals are. If you want to automatically derive an IDE
from a grammar then the best work is the Synthesizer Generator but it is
limited to absolutely noncircular attribute grammars IIRC. But it had
wicked cool features like incremental live evaluation. Tom Reps won a ACM
Disssrt
On Apr 11, 2012 2:53 PM, "Shawn Morel" wrote:
>
> This thread is a real treasure trove! Thanks for all the pointers Alan :)
>
> > A nice feature of Smalltalk (which has been rarely used outside of a
small group) is a collection of tools that can be used to create an
entirely different language wit
Absolutely ditto.
In order to understand Kernel and $vau, I tried reconstructing it using my
favourite prototyping language (Lua). Far from complete, but enough to define
'define', 'if' etc.; for me pretty amazing that it works at all. Of course
it's easier, since Lua already supports higher
Hello,
Just adding to my previous mail, I would also be interested in working
with any organizations on this list pursuing similar goals. Please do
get in touch with me if you feel my experience and motivations are a
good fit for your research.
Thank you,
Emaad.
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:18 PM,
Hello,
I am a senior computer science undergraduate at BITS - Pilani, Goa
Campus [1], India.
I hope to gain some experience doing research in programming languages and
compiler design. I was wondering, is the VPRI and FONC team open to
accommodating
international interns from mid-May to August th
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