Andreas Raab wrote:

> Just FYI:
> 
>>Right now I'm designing the language and am leaning towards 
>>lambda-based objects a la E (erights.org).  That is, every object
>>is a block.
> 
> 
> This was what inspired me to do the "objects as methods" stuff - just being
> able to experiment with these notions is incredibly powerful.

Well this power goes back to John McCarthys 1958 paper
entitled "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their 
Computation by Machine, Part I" in  the Communications the ACM.

And it reminds me of the quotation that every reasonaly complex
system includes a more or less well written Lisp interpreter
in the end.

Who said that?

Hannes Hirzel