"functional" as in "referentially transparent" or "Squeak  
replacement"? :)

It's no Squeak replacement yet, if that's what you mean. There are a  
lot of libraries and good shell script style support. There's a GUI,  
but Slate has the Strongtalk architecture without a working dynamic  
Strongtalk-style compiler (there's one... but it's not hooked in), so  
the libraries are relatively slow.

Now is not the time for the me-too hackers to join in; Slate's at the  
stage where the go-getters need to come in and work creatively on it.  
I don't need dead-weight, I need people who want to hack on system  
stuff.

On Mar 13, 2006, at 7:17 PM, Steven H. Rogers wrote:

> Thanks Brian.  How functional is Slate?
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
> Brian Rice wrote:
>> Slate does this, but at the library level, without the usual  
>> higher-order method hacks (but using some convenient macros). I've  
>> never been a fan of F-Script's syntax change to make this work.
>> We do have generic "point-free style" adverb methods defined on  
>> blocks which allow writing in a concatenative style. They were  
>> inspired by K, although the wording is a bit different.
>> I don't really have time to go over this here, but most of the  
>> code is in src/lib/method.slate in the Slate repository (see  
>> http://slate.tunes.org/ ).
>> I suppose http://slate.tunes.org/repos/main/src/lib/method.slate  
>> will give you the quickest way to look.
>> On Mar 12, 2006, at 5:54 AM, Steven H. Rogers wrote:
>>> OOPAL stands for Object Oriented Programming and Array  
>>> programming Language integration.  It is presently implemented in  
>>> Objective-C as part of the F-Script dialect of Smalltalk for the  
>>> Mac.
>>>
>>> Array programming is a useful abstraction, particularly for  
>>> numeric work, that is largely orthogonal to OOP.  Array  
>>> programming methods allow extremely concise problem statements  
>>> and solutions.  In the 1960's Ken Iverson created APL (http:// 
>>> sigapl.org) at IBM as a specification and rapid prototyping  
>>> language.  Classic APL uses symbols to represent primitive  
>>> operations and requires a special character set.  Modern APL  
>>> variants J (http://jsoftware.ocm) and K/Q (http://kx.com) use one  
>>> or two ASCII characters to represent primitives.  Some APLs have  
>>> added OO features. OOPAL adds array programming to Smalltalk.
>>>
>>> Here's a paper describing OOPAL http://www.fscript.org/download/ 
>>> OOPAL.pdf .
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Steve
>>> ///////////////////
>>>
>>> Lord ZealoN wrote:
>>>> What is OOPAL?
>>>> 2006/3/12, stéphane ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch  
>>>> <mailto:ducasse at iam.unibe.ch>>:
>>>>     unfortunately not.
>>>>     I would love to see that happening...
>>>>     Stef
>>>>     On 12 mars 06, at 03:43, Steven H. Rogers wrote:
>>>>      >
>>>>      > A couple of years ago there was some discussion of  
>>>> implementing
>>>>      > OOPAL in Squeak.  Has anyone done any work on this?
>>>>      >
>>>>      > Regards,
>>>>      > Steve

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-Brian
http://tunes.org/~water/brice.vcf

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