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Has it ever been implemented? Or is it still just a thought experiment in language design?
by jhbadger 7y ago
Has it ever been implemented? Or is it still just a thought experiment in language design?
- patrec 7y agoI'm pretty sure Moon (who is a famous old-school lisp hacker) will have at least some prototyping quality implementation somewhere, the design is to detailed for a mere thought experiment and there are longer code snippets around: http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/PLOT/page-35.html http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/PLOT/page-35.html I read about PLOT years ago and thought the approach to syntax (and macros) was quite clever; I don't remember the exact details but it was the first time I had seen something that was both hygenic and not horribly complex to implement. BTW, his markdown alternative (MMD -- Moon's Mark Down) also looks pretty nice (expressive and lightweight, but unlike org mode or other monstrosities trivial to parse and unambigious). http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/MMD/HTML/index.html http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/MMD/HTML/index.html He also has a ~700 LOC standalone python implementation which includes the sequence diagram drawing code: http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/MMD/MMD.py http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/MMD/MMD.py.