That's one idea. Although there are many applications. I'm using it now to test a translator from Smalltalk to PQF (an insane query language), but the course of acquisition of a natural language is a very complex process, so a linguist can write a translator which display dynamically inflectional systems differences between English and Greek or Chinese, or a WordNet application which suggest synonyms to a writer as he writes, or a logician which desires to show his students calculus applied to a "lingua characteristica", i.e. it is not limited to computer or constructed languages. Use your imagination :)
For the Smalltalk to Java part, I've just included a translator available in the SqueakSource repository, I'm not so concerned about the correcteness of a translator but if the author wants to include a warning before usage of his tool I will happily include it. One motivation for STicky were the arguments of some Java developers I know, they told me they've felt lost inside Smalltalk (they've never seen a Programming System as an autonomic system with global behavior, etc. but as a process which deals with dead text code) and since language is a means for referring objects rather than the object itself, this tool can show the referent sources of their language, if a translator exists of course. Cheers, Hernán 2009/9/27 Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr>: > But for beginner what is the difference between that and a Smalltalk > interpreter. > The idea is that they can compare with their own language the > smalltalk syntax? > it could work now when trnaslating to Java you can generate really bad > code to > express smalltalk syntax? > > Stef > > On Sep 26, 2009, at 11:26 PM, Andrey Larionov wrote: > >> Its an awesome. It what i want cause i smalltalk beginer >> >> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 01:20, Hernán Morales Durand >> <hernan.mora...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> is a pluggable real-time evaluator and/or translator workspace >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
