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Don't be sorry by what you're interested in =) Concurrency is obviously one of the last points (with exceptions) to tackle before we throw together a 1.0 spec.

Don't be sorry by what you're interested in =) Concurrency is obviously one of the last points (with exceptions) to tackle before we throw together a 1.0 spec. We haven't settled on a final solution there, but there are definitely discussions and hacktivity in that area. We're not so foolish as to pretend to be a modern language without even caring about concurrency =) It just takes some time to get it right.

hga 17y ago
"We're not so foolish as to pretend to be a modern language without even caring about concurrency =)" I was wondering.... You might want to make a note of that on the home page, as well about exceptions. "It just takes some time to get it right." Indeed, as do exceptions. Go doesn't have them yet, many languages have problems with them, especially if grafted on later, and I know they were a work in progress (well, the work had about finished, I think) when I left the Lisp Machine community in mid-1983. If I wasn't in love with Lisp, i.e. if I hadn't started programming in 1978 and therefore had long ago established a variety of preferences, I might well be interested in your language, it does have variety of tasteful features. I wish you luck.
- nddrylliog 17y ago
  while I don't want to fall too much into vaporware, the homepage mention might indeed make sense. Thanks for the luck-wishing, we'll definitely need it. However it ends up, it will still have been a wonderful journey. Every programming experience should be so.
  - hga 17y ago
    You're very welcome. I understand the vaporware concern, but if you e.g. are saying to yourselves "this won't be successful without concurrency" then you might as well mention it as an in progress feature. If you are at least playing around with it, serious discussions, designs or even have cut a little code for it, that's not dishonest in any way. For a lot of people, including myself, it's now a "checklist" feature. So are exceptions, but those are a bit obscure, or perhaps more appreciated by the more experienced or something like that. Those who know about these things also know they're hard to do (right).

hga 17y ago

"We're not so foolish as to pretend to be a modern language without even caring about concurrency =)" I was wondering.... You might want to make a note of that on the home page, as well about exceptions. "It just takes some time to get it right." Indeed, as do exceptions. Go doesn't have them yet, many languages have problems with them, especially if grafted on later, and I know they were a work in progress (well, the work had about finished, I think) when I left the Lisp Machine community in mid-1983. If I wasn't in love with Lisp, i.e. if I hadn't started programming in 1978 and therefore had long ago established a variety of preferences, I might well be interested in your language, it does have variety of tasteful features. I wish you luck.

nddrylliog 17y ago
while I don't want to fall too much into vaporware, the homepage mention might indeed make sense. Thanks for the luck-wishing, we'll definitely need it. However it ends up, it will still have been a wonderful journey. Every programming experience should be so.
- hga 17y ago
  You're very welcome. I understand the vaporware concern, but if you e.g. are saying to yourselves "this won't be successful without concurrency" then you might as well mention it as an in progress feature. If you are at least playing around with it, serious discussions, designs or even have cut a little code for it, that's not dishonest in any way. For a lot of people, including myself, it's now a "checklist" feature. So are exceptions, but those are a bit obscure, or perhaps more appreciated by the more experienced or something like that. Those who know about these things also know they're hard to do (right).