[ On Monday, November 19, 2001 at 13:25:52 (+0100), Bruce ONeel wrote: ]
> Subject: f-script
>
> at http://www.fscript.org is a MacOS X scripting layer
> which looks a lot like Smaltalk.

It _is_ Smalltalk!  (with a tiny syntax enhancement and some new methods
for the Array class!  :-)

Other than the innovative syntax used, I'm wondering what all they hype
is about -- everything else discussed in the paper "High Level Object
Oriented Programming with Array Technology" by Philippe Mougin
(available for download from www.fscript.org, and published in the ACM
APL-2000 Berlin confer procedings) seems obvious, even to someone like
me who's not much of an expert on "array programming" or any of the
traditional languages such as APL.  Indeed many of the new Array class
messages discussed seemed like obvious additions (though of course some
of them only become truly useful with the new message send notation for
Array objects).  Some of the potential underlying implementation
optimisations discussed seemd pretty nifty too though.

Does anyone have any thoughts on adding this AP stuff to Squeak?

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