[The Java Posse] Re: Mushroom season - New language each year

2010-09-09 Thread Roland Tepp
On 8 sept, 16:35, Ricky Clarkson ricky.clark...@gmail.com wrote: The type is some class with a + method.  That really is all that matters. That's true when determining that the code will compile, but not for determining its meaning. Sorry, but are you claiming to have found a solution to

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Mushroom season - New language each year

2010-09-09 Thread Ricky Clarkson
That's true when determining that the code will compile, but not for determining its meaning. Sorry, but are you claiming to have found a solution to a program that can read another porogram source code and prove it is doing exactly what it has been specified to do? No. But surely you're

[The Java Posse] Re: Mushroom season - New language each year

2010-08-30 Thread Roland Tepp
Al long as we are talking about mushroom season: There is Ioke: http://ioke.org/index.html (also discussed in the SE-Radio episode 154: http://www.se-radio.net/2010/01/episode-154-ola-bini-on-ioke/) Pretty neat experiment for a language design, if you ask me... On Aug 27, 11:21 am, Wildam

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Mushroom season - New language each year

2010-08-28 Thread Moandji Ezana
Reinier, haven't you been reading Bracha's blog? He's been discussing Newspeak's features philosophy there for a while now. Moandji On 28 Aug 2010 01:31, Reinier Zwitserloot reini...@gmail.com wrote: Nice, another language. One of these days one of them is going to prove that some nice syntax

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Mushroom season - New language each year

2010-08-28 Thread Mark Derricutt
The language is actually looking rather nice, check out: http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/19/video-of-newspeak-lecture-now-available/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dct6QG0cE Mark -- Pull me down under... On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot reini...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Mushroom season - New language each year

2010-08-28 Thread Mark Derricutt
There's also other videos at: http://newspeaklanguage.org/newspeak-videos/ -- Pull me down under... On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Mark Derricutt m...@talios.com wrote: The language is actually looking rather nice, check out:

[The Java Posse] Re: Mushroom season - New language each year

2010-08-27 Thread Casper Bang
Ahh but you are not brave enough to get into which mushrooms are of the toxic kind? ;) On Aug 27, 10:21 am, Wildam Martin mwil...@gmail.com wrote: I thought the mushroom season for this year is over ;-) - but season for new programming languages seams to be everlasting... For the language

[The Java Posse] Re: Mushroom season - New language each year

2010-08-27 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
Nice, another language. One of these days one of them is going to prove that some nice syntax sugar is all you need to become the next big thing. Or perhaps not. Interesting that this is a project from Bracha and von der Ahe, and also that its not a JVM based language (it's currently based on the

[The Java Posse] Re: Mushroom season - New language each year

2010-08-27 Thread Steven Herod
And in the meantime, whilst we occupy ourselves arguing over minutia of programming languages, people like Salesforce are out there taking development projects off us all :) On Aug 28, 9:30 am, Reinier Zwitserloot reini...@gmail.com wrote: Nice, another language. One of these days one of them