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I think that's where I first heard the term "intentional" in this usage! It fit exactly what I was doing, so I adopted it as a name. I did a little bit of res

by _Nat_ 7y ago

I think that's where I first heard the term "intentional" in this usage! It fit exactly what I was doing, so I adopted it as a name. I did a little bit of research on their prior work, but I get the feeling that they fell into a bunch of traps. For example, they seem to refer to "compiling" programs, which is enough of a conceptual mistake as to sink their project from the start. Still, the overall idea that the focus should be on intent, rather than how that intent is implemented, seems apt.

WaxProlix 7y ago
If you look at any of their products (might be hard to do actually) the focus was metaprogramming as a paradigm and building tools to create basically DSLs for various domains which allowed more or less what you're talking about, all of which were interpreted to a sort of universal meta-language and all of which could be projected from that representation into any of its other forms. Pretty cool stuff, or at least it had the potential to be.