Here is Guy Steele's 1998 keynote at OOPSLA about growing languages. Some interesting give and take on language design. It's just over 50 minutes but so far is pretty good.
brianTue 19 May 2009
Yeah, that is a good one - although they never did really follow thru on making Java growable (operator overloading, value-types, etc).
I'm psyched to see how Fan's DSLs work out for people to grow the language beyond what you can do from the OO perspective.
cheeser Tue 19 May 2009
Here is Guy Steele's 1998 keynote at OOPSLA about growing languages. Some interesting give and take on language design. It's just over 50 minutes but so far is pretty good.
brian Tue 19 May 2009
Yeah, that is a good one - although they never did really follow thru on making Java growable (operator overloading, value-types, etc).
I'm psyched to see how Fan's DSLs work out for people to grow the language beyond what you can do from the OO perspective.