OpenEuphoria

Re: The "perfect" language...

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Mar 19, 2000
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On Sun, 19 Mar 2000,
> Martin Nilsson wrote:
>
> snip
> >
> >Short description of Kafka¨:
> >
> >It's *probject-oriented*. Probjects are mixtures between functions and
> >OOP-objects. Sequences can be regarded as a special kind of probjects.
> >Everything evaluates to something: perhaps Kafka¨ can be viewed as some
> >kind of remote Lisp-clone.
> >
> >There is virtually no special syntax for OOP: no classes or interfaces;
> >just two built-in probjects.
> >The transition between OOP-style- and none-OOP-style programming will be
> >easy and almost unnoticeable.
> >
> snip
> >So my questions are:
> >
> >Is there any interest for this among Euphorians (or RDS); or do you feel
> >Mike Nelson's and other people's OOP-libraries are simply enough?

Ideas are always welcome. I suggest you write some example code before you
even begin writing the compiler/interpreter, just so we can grasp the concept.
That way we can compare "kafka" with existing languages, and see the benefits
of this new language.

Doing this will also allow you to think carefully about the implementation of
each language structure, and probably lead to a cleaner design.

Regards,
Irv