[fonc] Piumarta and Warth’s Open Objects in Scheme

2014-10-29 Thread Kurt Stephens
Something I threw together. :) http://devdriven.com/2014/10/piumarta-and-warths-open-objects-in-scheme/ -- KAS ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc

Re: [fonc] Piumarta and Warth’s Open Objects in Scheme

2014-10-29 Thread Kurt Stephens
Fixed and revised. Apologies. -- KAS On 2014-10-29 03:11, Julian Leviston wrote: Link broken. Julian On 29 Oct 2014, at 5:55 pm, Kurt Stephens k...@kurtstephens.com wrote: Something I threw together. :) http://devdriven.com/2014/10/piumarta-and-warths-open-objects-in-scheme/ [1

Re: [fonc] hashes as names

2013-10-01 Thread Kurt Stephens
ASN.1 OIDs are quasi-decentralized in this way. Standardized in 1984. On 9/26/13 8:38 PM, David Barbour wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Martin McClure martin.mccl...@gemtalksystems.com mailto:martin.mccl...@gemtalksystems.com wrote: ... Creating unique IDs can scale quite well

[fonc] DSL Engineering: Designing, Implementing and Using Domain-Specific Languages

2013-01-25 Thread Kurt Stephens
Don't know if this has been posted/discussed before: http://dslbook.org/ The 560-page, book is donationware. Lots to read here. :) -- KAS ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc

Re: [fonc] COLAs or CLOAs? : are lambda systems fundamentally simpler than object systems?

2012-02-13 Thread Kurt Stephens
On 2/13/12 12:58 PM, David Nolen wrote: Clojure is another Lisp that puts Objects at the bottom. Depending on how its implemented I don't think it needs to be complex - for example ClojureScript is hosted on JavaScript (which brings it's own Objects) and the ClojureScript compiler is only

Re: [fonc] COLAs or CLOAs? : are lambda systems fundamentally simpler than object systems?

2012-02-12 Thread Kurt Stephens
On 2/12/12 11:15 AM, Steve Wart wrote: Can the distributed computation model you describe be formalized as a set of rewrite rules, or is the black box model really about a protocol for message dispatch? Attempts to build distributed messaging systems haven't been particularly simple. In fact I

Re: [fonc] COLAs or CLOAs? : are lambda systems fundamentally simpler than object systems?

2012-02-12 Thread Kurt Stephens
On 2/12/12 1:19 PM, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote: Am 12.02.2012 20:01, schrieb Kurt Stephens: Many languages do not reify the message itself as an object. I have been musing lately how the Linda model (tuple spaces) could be helpful. We've been using tuple spaces at my current job for 5+ years

Re: [fonc] COLAs or CLOAs? : are lambda systems fundamentally simpler than object systems?

2012-02-12 Thread Kurt Stephens
On 2/12/12 4:11 PM, Julian Leviston wrote: On 13/02/2012, at 6:01 AM, Kurt Stephens wrote: If send(sel, rcvr, args) can decomposed into apply(lookup(sel, rcvr, args), rcvr, args), then this follows: Message.new(sel, rcvr, args).lookup().apply() ... I don't follow why a message isn't

[fonc] maru 2.1 anon symbol support.

2012-02-02 Thread Kurt Stephens
Added anon symbols and gensym support to maru 2.1. Use gensym in some form expanders that used _var_ bindings. https://github.com/kstephens/maru/tree/version-2.1-anon-symbol -- Kurt ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org

Re: [fonc] New document, Appendix II Maru sample

2011-11-08 Thread Kurt Stephens
See: http://code.google.com/r/kurts68-maru/ or the original repo: http://code.google.com/p/maru/ On 11/8/11 8:09 PM, David Girle wrote: I am trying to learn a little about Maru, so (jumping in the deep) I took the FFT code out of the Appendix II of tr2011004_steps.pdf and attempted to run it

Re: [fonc] Reading Maxwell's Equations

2010-02-28 Thread Kurt Stephens
Reuben Thomas wrote: On 26 February 2010 23:15, John Zabroski johnzabro...@gmail.com wrote: These three physical coupling issues (block-structured, procedural message passing; manual memory management; manual concurrency) are things the average programmer should never have to touch, I don't

Re: [fonc] Reading Maxwell's Equations

2010-02-28 Thread Kurt Stephens
Alejandro F. Reimondo wrote: John, Where else should I look? In my opinion what is missing in the languages formulations is sustainability of the system. [*] In case of formula/abstract based declaration of systems all alternatives make people put on the idea(L) side and not in the

Re: [fonc] Ocean core language

2008-09-17 Thread Kurt Stephens
Michael FIG wrote: Hi, Colin Putney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 16-Sep-08, at 6:16 AM, Aaron Gray wrote: But it's not that at all. I'm implementing runtime dynamic typing for a statically typed system i.e. verification, not optimization. 'for' or 'on top of ' or 'underneath' ? The

[fonc] Parameterized Word Tagging: Any interest?

2008-07-28 Thread Kurt Stephens
, but I haven't looked much at Jolt yet; I'm not sure where to start. Preliminary results as applied to libid here: http://kurtstephens.com/node/60 Kurt Stephens ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc

Re: [fonc] sideways composition and metacircularity

2008-06-13 Thread Kurt Stephens
Send site descriptors (that have been discussed here on several occasions) can solve many of the internal ABI problems, but by no means all of them. However, I think they would be sufficient for Leiberman prototypes provided 'receiver self' was communicated to the destination method

Re: [fonc] 64-bit? was: fonc on ubuntu.

2008-06-08 Thread Kurt Stephens
for an application that he knew he need to port between Solaris, NeXTSTEP and Windows. It was a lot of work, but it only paid-off after the project lasted 6 years. Kurt Stephens ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc

Re: [fonc] 64-bit? was: fonc on ubuntu.

2008-06-07 Thread Kurt Stephens
the adoption of locatives (safe pointers) in more dynamic languages. See: http://kurtstephens.com/node/52 Kurt Stephens ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc

[fonc] Cannot run pull: repository is unrelated?

2008-05-07 Thread Kurt Stephens
to libid I'd like to contribute. Kurt Stephens http://kurtstephens.com ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc