[fonc] PARC founder Jacon Goldman dies at 90

2011-12-22 Thread Long Nguyen
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/business/jacob-e-goldman-founder-of-xerox-lab-dies-at-90.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc

[fonc] Holiday project - BCPL grammar in OMeta

2011-12-25 Thread Long Nguyen
Hey folks, To learn OMeta, and do a little historical recreation, I amused myself over these holidays by writing a BCPL parser (specifically the Xerox PARC version, as described in James Curry's 1973 manual) in OMeta. There are a few things not supported yet (like tags on compound statements). It

Re: [fonc] Alan Kay in the news [german]

2012-07-18 Thread Long Nguyen
Dear Dr. Kay, May I ask, how would you type on a computer if you cannot play keyboards? Best, Long On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Alan Kay wrote: > I should mention that there is both garbling and also lots of fabrication in > this report. > > I didn't say "abandon theory" -- I did urge doin

[fonc] A META-II for C that fits in a half a sheet of paper

2012-11-21 Thread Long Nguyen
27;do {'> exp2 *( '|' <'if (test_flag) { break; }'> exp2 ) <'} while (0);'>; stat = .id <'void meta_' $ '(void)'> <'{'> '=' exp1 ';' <'}&

Re: [fonc] A META-II for C that fits in a half a sheet of paper

2012-11-22 Thread Long Nguyen
Thanks, Chris. I have also put my version of META-II onto my Github too: https://github.com/impeachgod/meta Long On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Chris Double wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Long Nguyen wrote: > > I was very impressed with Val Schorre's META-II pape

Re: [fonc] A META-II for C that fits in a half a sheet of paper

2012-11-25 Thread Long Nguyen
Thanks, Robert. Here is a fixed version of support.h with improved error handling. Long On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Robert Feldt wrote: > Thanks Long, this was a great meta-II to build on. > > I had to fix a bug in support.h (see diff at bottom) but then used your > code to bootstrap the f

Re: [fonc] Me too! A META-II for Lua

2012-12-08 Thread Long Nguyen
Why you too proud? Hand compiling indeed sucks. I did it so you don't have to. Now I'm offended. But awesome work anyway. On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Loup Vaillant-David wrote: > - At first, I used exclusively functions. Then your `do {} while()` > __