Re: Looking for volunteers for XL

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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