Re: [fonc] Modern General Purpose Programming Language

2013-11-08 Thread BGB
On 11/6/2013 3:55 AM, Chris Warburton wrote: BGB cr88...@gmail.com writes: it is sad, in premise, that hard-coded Visual Studio projects, and raw Makefiles, are often easier to get to work when things don't go just right. well, that and one time recently managing to apparently get on the bad

Re: [fonc] Modern General Purpose Programming Language

2013-11-06 Thread Chris Warburton
BGB cr88...@gmail.com writes: it is sad, in premise, that hard-coded Visual Studio projects, and raw Makefiles, are often easier to get to work when things don't go just right. well, that and one time recently managing to apparently get on the bad side of some developers for a FOSS GPL

Re: [fonc] Modern General Purpose Programming Language (Was: Task management in a world without apps.)

2013-11-05 Thread BGB
On 11/5/2013 7:15 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r at gmail.comwrites mailto:fonc%40vpri.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5Bfonc%5D%20Task%20management%20in%20a%20world%20without%20apps.In-Reply-To=%3CDD90A941-C94A-4F01-A013-6D838B0B2524%40gmail.com%3E A fun, but maybe idealistic

[fonc] Modern General Purpose Programming Language (Was: Task management in a world without apps.)

2013-11-04 Thread Loup Vaillant-David
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 04:11:15AM -0800, Alan Kay wrote: if we were to attempt an ultra high level general purpose language today, we wouldn't use Squeak or any other Smalltalk as a model or a starting place. May I ask what would be an acceptable starting point? Maru, maybe? Loup.