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ThiNG Project Diary |
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tonyg, 12 Dec 2004: |
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Today Matthias Radestock emailed through a link to a website about the |
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L programming language (and operating system). |
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The project is being run by a Tony Hannan, a PhD student at Georgia Tech. |
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The language is really quite similar to ThiNG. |
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We've been working faster, though |
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;-) |
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He seems to have Baker's shallow-bound-transaction idea at the core of the |
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language, along with extremely restricted mutable state. |
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He's still using single-dispatch, though. |
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Also, his metaobjects are the lexical scope and the dynamic state of the |
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code, where ThiNG is based on locations and explicit reflection. |
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Actually, I have a feeling ThiNG is going to end up |
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completely |
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reflective, with very little hardwired behaviour. |
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The paper he's writing about L gets into a lot of the mathematical structure |
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we haven't formalised yet, which is nice, since we can look at how he's |
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done it for when we want to write down our formalisms. |
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