On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 07:24:40PM -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > where's limboscript?! > > ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2006-50.pdf > http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2006/05/scheme-implementation-in-javascript.html
That's nothing. If you want to see something truly awful, look at what the FreeBSD people are doing as one of their, `summer of code' projects: _K: The Kernel Metalanguage_. >From the blurb: Kernel meta-language: Develop a dialect of the C language that simplifies the task of writing kernel code. It should include language extensions that make it possible to write kernel code more cleanly and with less bugs. An example of this would have language support for linked lists, to obviate the need for messy MACROs. George V. Neville-Neil and Poul-Henning Kamp are coordinating. http://wikitest.freebsd.org/K This paper that the reference, from Berkeley: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zf/papers/ivy-hotos05.pdf doesn't mention limbo at all (or Cyclone). Nor do the other references (though they do mention Singularity, from MS research). It's like a complexity bomb went off inside these guys' heads. - Dan C.
