[F-Script-talk] F-Script news

[Philippe M. <pm...@ac...>]

Recent F-Script related news:

* New tool: jgdo, developed by Joerg Garbers, lets you communicate with=20=

F-Script in a client-server mode. jgdo is an open-source Unix program,=20=

that sends its standard input(s) to F-Script, and returns the result(s)=20=

to its standard output. You can download jgdo from the F-Script web=20
site at
http://www.fscript.org/download/download.htm#jgdo

* Andy Stark has produced a bookmarked PDF version of the F-Script=20
Guide, which is much easier to use than the standard version.
Download: http://www.fscript.org/download/FScriptGuide.pdf

* Alexandre Bergel has released the behavioral inspector for Squeak,=20
inspired by the F-Script object browser. Go to the behavioral inspector=20=

web page at :
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~bergel/Smalltalk/BehavioralInspector/

* F-Script is now included in the ESUG CD-ROM. This CD-ROM, produced by=20=

the European Smalltalk User Group, contains tons of great Smalltalk=20
resources: many Smalltalk environments (VisualWorks, Squeak,=20
GnuSmalltalk, Smalltalk/X etc.), free books, lectures, articles, videos=20=

and more. You can download the content or order the CD at
http://www.ira.uka.de/~marcus/EsugcD.html.

* HOM (Higher Order Messaging) lets you write object-oriented code at a=20=

higher level. F-Script=92s object/array programming model provides=20
advanced support for this approach. While F-Script has been designed=20
with some kind of HOM support in mind, it is also possible to apply HOM=20=

techniques with some existing object-oriented languages and/or for=20
other usage patterns. The new wiki page at
http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/HigherOrderMessaging
presents HOM in the context of Objective-C. You may also look at this=20
set of slides from Marcel Weiher:
http://www.metaobject.com/papers/HOM-Presentation.pdf
Marcel has created  interesting HOM concepts and techniques, and=20
provides implementations for Objective-C and Smalltalk. This work has=20
inspired implementations for other languages such as Ruby.

Best,

Phil=