This might be of interest to some of you. Jeff Wunderlich is the author of Aurora, my all-time favorite editor.
-rex http://www.transmuter.org/intro.html What is Trans? The Transmuter Programming Language, or Trans for short, is a new prototype-based dynamic programming language that has been under careful design and development for several years, and is currently in a testing phase. Trans is a biologically inspired language, providing a framework for experimenting with naturally evolving systems of objects over the net, and for exploring new ideas about recombinant software, code morphing, and evolutionary programming in general. The Trans model is an ambitious attempt to fuse modern programming language paradigms with novel evolutionary programming techniques. It is a modern object-oriented dynamic language with a built-in capacity for evolutionary transformation. Since modern programming language paradigms are well-known and widely used, Trans may have the potential to foster increased interest, development, and acceptance of evolutionary programming. But Trans is more than just an experimental language. A major long-term goal is to provide a practical approach to developing and maintaining real-world systems using new self-evolving, self-organizing methods. Trans can also be used as a general-purpose dynamic programming language. It's fast, flexible, compact, object-oriented, highly extensible, and easy-to-learn. It is an industrial strength language, with built-in networking capabilities. Trans can be used for rapid prototyping, or as a scripting language, an embedded language, a net server or client, a system of cooperating network nodes, a real-time control and monitoring system, and much more. All Trans language software is in the public domain, and is available from this site. Trans is a work-in-progress, and will likely remain so as long as I am able to support it. It is a very significant undertaking. With enough interest, I hope that a large portion of the future development of Trans will be community driven, and that Trans itself may eventually become open-source. I welcome constructive input from anyone, but especially from creative people with expertise in the life sciences and computer sciences. -Jeff Wunderlich, creator of Trans, February 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/
