Re: [livecode] language for conversational computing

From: alex <alex_at_slab.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:41:52 +0100

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 00:07 +0200, Julian Rohrhuber wrote:
> that sounds very interesting. what makes this language more
> conversational than others?

Some more about it here:

http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/showlanguage2.prx?exp=228

It seems it was a precursor to smalltalk, and is properly known as LC
squared.

LC2 seems a good search term, leading to this interesting paper
"building dynamic programs" by Peter Brown:
  http://historical.ncstrl.org/litesite-data/stan/CS-TR-81-838.pdf

I like the idea of a program having "loose ends" that a programmer fills
in while it's running, and then running a checker that makes sure that
the loose ends are tied up before passing the finished program on to the
end user.

alex
Received on Wed Sep 20 2006 - 23:42:08 BST

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