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Having played around with XL, Tao3D and Elfe, I have to say there was/is a lot of fun to be had and some very compelling concepts and unique ideas in these proj
by ptrott2017 7y ago
Having played around with XL, Tao3D and Elfe, I have to say there was/is a lot of fun to be had and some very compelling concepts and unique ideas in these projects. Its great to see them mentioned on HN. I found the parse tree approach very educational and its a very nice and powerful alternative to S-expressions. Tao3D was an very quick way to build simple interactive graphics apps and a lot of fun. ELFE has some interesting concepts for distributed computing. While I ended up using Erlang and LISP rather than ELFE it was defintely eye opening in a good way and reminded me of the fun and creativity to be had - - so a huge thank you for the past projects and good luck with the next evolution.
- yiyus 7y ago> I found the parse tree approach very educational and its a very nice and powerful alternative to S-expressions. Do you have at hand a link where I can read more about this? Thank you in advance!
- c3d 7y agoWell, a starting point would be this: https://github.com/c3d/xl/tree/master/doc https://github.com/c3d/xl/tree/master/doc. It's not finished, but it gives you a good idea. For Tao3D, you have https://tao3d.sf.net https://tao3d.sf.net.
- yiyus 7y agoThank you! I was actually looking for something specific about parse trees vs S-expressions. That would be https://github.com/c3d/xl/blob/master/doc/HANDBOOK_1-syntax.md https://github.com/c3d/xl/blob/master/doc/HANDBOOK_1-syntax.... But I'm reading the whole thing now. Very interesting language! I don't see myself using it in production any time soon, but it looks like a wonderful tool for programming languages research. Thank you again!