[jvm-l] Re: Top five languages

2008-04-24 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
Ola Bini wrote: My top five: JRuby Scala Clojure ioke Duby. You want justifications for those? =) No, but how about a description and status update for ioke I can use in the talk :) - Charlie --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

[jvm-l] Re: Top five languages

2008-04-24 Thread Richard Warburton
Here's my top five interesting language projects: JRuby - pushing the bounds of class generation and dynamic invocation perf, as well as pulling a whole other platform into the JVM ecosystem Groovy - providing almost all Java language features and two-way integration in addition to

[jvm-l] Re: CommunityOne talk on JVM language implementers

2008-04-24 Thread Ola Bini
Jon Harrop wrote: On Saturday 19 April 2008 14:28:53 Patrick Wright wrote: Hi Charlie 0.02: - Discussion of a few key languages that could be arguably considered popular and where they stand in their development processes I'd recommend also at least covering (or

[jvm-l] Re: Top five languages

2008-04-24 Thread Jon Harrop
On Thursday 24 April 2008 19:08:53 Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: Ola Bini wrote: My top five: JRuby Scala Clojure ioke Duby. You want justifications for those? =) No, but how about a description and status update for ioke I can use in the talk :) I'd appreciate any

[jvm-l] Re: Top five languages

2008-04-24 Thread Daniel Green
Distinct? mostly based off of the coolness factor: Scala JRuby Groovy Jhaskell (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jhaskell) OCaml-Java (http://ocamljava.x9c.fr/) And perhaps some implementation of Lisp or Scheme if a decent one exists. I imagine there's an abundance of them. But certainly not

[jvm-l] Re: Top five languages

2008-04-24 Thread Guillaume Laforge
Shouldn't there be Rhino? On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For my CommunityOne talk...how about everyone posts five interesting JVM language projects. This can certainly include languages that aren't under active development right now or that

[jvm-l] Re: Top five languages

2008-04-24 Thread Per Bothner
Patrick Wright wrote: Hard to narrow it down, but Scala Kawa Pnuts Talc - F3 - such a good name :) Yes -certainly better than the current marketing-chosen name: JavaFX Script. Re: Kawa, I'm specifically interested in the reusable language infrastructure that underlies it, which

[jvm-l] Re: Top five languages

2008-04-24 Thread David MacIver
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Jon Harrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008 21:39:56 Daniel Green wrote: It seems that everyone has put Scala in their top 5 :-). So either we were all introduced to the this group through the Scala community, or we're in for some

[jvm-l] Re: Top five languages

2008-04-24 Thread Jim White
Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: For my CommunityOne talk...how about everyone posts five interesting JVM language projects... Groovy Kawa ANTLR Scala And for my abandonded and perhaps most lamented: MLj (the original source for F#) Jim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

[jvm-l] Re: Top five languages

2008-04-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 24 April 2008 17:08, Jim White wrote: Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: For my CommunityOne talk...how about everyone posts five interesting JVM language projects... Groovy Kawa ANTLR Scala Wow. It's fascinating that someone would list both Groovy and Scala! The former is a

[jvm-l] Re: Top five languages

2008-04-24 Thread raybaq
Hi, Couldn't resist delurking to mention the JVM language I'm working on: JoyJ (Joy in Java, available at http://appforge2.apc.edu.ph/gf/project/joyj/scmsvn/), an interpreter for the concatenative programming language Joy (http:// www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy.html). I used ANTLR in

[jvm-l] Re: Top five languages

2008-04-24 Thread Jim White
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008 17:08, Jim White wrote: Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: For my CommunityOne talk...how about everyone posts five interesting JVM language projects... Groovy Kawa ANTLR Scala Wow. It's fascinating that someone would list both Groovy and

[jvm-l] Re: Top five languages

2008-04-24 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
Jim White wrote: Scala has the right machinery for implementing a prototype for Java 3. Alas it suffers from the problem of other JVM languages like JRuby, Jython, and JavaFX in that it has gratuitous syntax deviation from Java for features that are the same as in Java. Them's fightin

[jvm-l] Re: Top five languages

2008-04-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 24 April 2008 19:47, Jim White wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008 17:08, Jim White wrote: Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: For my CommunityOne talk...how about everyone posts five interesting JVM language projects... Groovy Kawa ANTLR Scala ... And

[jvm-l] Re: Top five languages

2008-04-24 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008 19:47, Jim White wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008 17:08, Jim White wrote: Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: For my CommunityOne talk...how about everyone posts five interesting JVM language projects... Groovy Kawa ANTLR