Re: Looking for volunteers for XL

Timothy Knox <tdk@thelbane.com>
Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:50:19 -0800

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From: Timothy Knox <tdk@thelbane.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:50:19 -0800
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 11-11-048 11-11-053 11-11-054 11-11-061
Keywords: design, comment
Posted-Date: 29 Nov 2011 01:51:30 EST

Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 04:45:11AM +0000, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> [Are you aware of anyone actually doing this? I agree that you might
> expect extensible languages to be handy design testbeds, but somehow
> other than in the Lisp community, it didn't work out that way. -John]


Well, John, I think the Forth community provide another counter-example.
Granted, I am not aware of any projects of hundreds or thousands of
Forth devs, but some rather significant projects have been done in Forth
by small teams. And lest folks think Forth as a philosophy is dead, you
might want to see http://factorcode.org/ where the language is evolving
in some very interesting directions.
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:tdk@thelbane.com>


Never trust a language where its users won't tell you that it sucks.
        -- Peter Corlett, on We Hates Software (about Python)
[Forth is swell, but you can't extend its syntax the way you can in
languages with BNF-based parsers and rewrite rules. -John]


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