On Sep 3, 2007, at 11:29 , e.spin wrote:

>
> Hi Bert,
>
> Bert Freudenberg-2 wrote:
>>
>>
>> [...]
>> I have the impression that Smalltalk has hit a "sweet spot" - there
>> may be a few additions (compile-time expressions anyone?) but
>> basically it is very succinct in expressing what the underlying
>> system does, namely, sending messages to objects. Other languages
>> needed to add a lot more over the years as they started out with a
>> rather limited model, but if you start with a general model like
>> Smalltalk did (which in turn was the result of many experiments) it
>> is not necessary to add that much. Or, if you do it, it wouldn't be
>> Smalltalk anymore (and that's in fact what Alan's group now is
>> working on, there is a whole lot of experimenting with syntax going
>> on using Meta).
>> [...]
>>
> What is this Meta thing you mentioned? Do you have any URLs, docs  
> about it?

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~awarth/ometa/

Also on SqueakMap (pkg OMeta)

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