Hannes,

I am not a developer or expert in FONC project, but as the most people in
this list (thinking so) tremulously waiting for it and following its
progress (like OMeta)!

FONC - Fundamentals of New computing (
http://www.vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm,
http://www.vpri.org/html/writings.php).
OMeta - an Object-Oriented Language for Pattern Matching (
http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/), developed under the FONC.
Examples, which give more insight are here in OMeta-js (
http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa-js/), OMeta2 squeak syntax is closer to that.
There are existed its own mailing lists for discussion (
http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/ometa,
http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc).

So, these technologies are like a lighthouse for a fully self sustaining,
open-ended, user-centric software of the future.

In the current development I am exploring OMeta, describing Croquet spaces
and parsing active formulas (user scripts) in space, getting them from
web-browser (Seaside-framework) or Tweak interface.
Not yet ready something to show now, but soon :)

Best regards,
Nikolay


On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Hannes Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 5/13/10, Nikolay Suslov <nsuslovi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Hannes,
> >
> > Thanks for the interest,
> >
> .....
> >
> > Krestianstvo's main domain is Virtual Learning Environments, so there are
> > some of the most important things to be aware while developing:
> >
> >    1. Collaboration at first (that's why the name Krestianstvo (Peasantry
> in
> >    English)). Sharing all, from data to action, process, computation
> > (looking
> >    forward to Open Croquet/Cobalt project).
> >    2. To be open as much as possible (self sustaining and modifying by
> >    system itself) (looking forward to OMeta and FONC)
> >    3. Multimedia oriented
> >
>
> Hello Nikolay,
>
> I have loaded OMeta (see attached screen shot, I just had to click on
> OMeta2.mcm and to click 'Load'.
>
> There are some examples in the class comment of OMeta2Examples
>
>
> Here's how to run these examples:
>
>        OMeta2Examples match: 5 with: #fact.
>        OMeta2Examples matchAll: '1234' with: #number.
>        OMeta2Examples matchAll: 'abc123' with: #identifier.
>        OMeta2Examples matchAll: #($a $b $c 1 2 3 #(4 5)) with: #structure.
>        OMeta2Examples matchAll: 'howdy' with: #greeting.
>
> I understand that these examples are all of a kind of generalised
> regex matching type. They match an expression and extract something.
>
> Do you have examples which give a bit more insight?
>
> What is FONC?
>
> Kind regards
> Hannes
>
>
>
>
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