On 24 September 2014 23:20, Tim Olson <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting talk by Stephen Wolfram at the Strange Loop conference: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjCWdsrVcBM > > He goes in the direction of creating a “big” language, rather than a small > kernel that can be built upon, like Smalltalk, Maru, etc. >
Smalltalk and Maru are rather different: Ian Piumarta would argue, I suspect, that the distinction between "small" and "large" languages is an artificial one imposed by most languages' inability to change their syntax. Smalltalk can't, but Maru can. Here we see Ian making Maru understand Smalltalk, ASCII state diagrams, and other things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGeN2IC7N0Q That's the sort of small kernel you could build Wolfram on. Racket is a production-quality example of the same thing: http://racket-lang.org -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
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