[F-Script-talk] Porting FScript ideas (!)

[Giovanni G. <dai...@gm...>]

My concers is broader then stated before.
In two words, I liked a  lot the *way* FScript uses Smalltak.
The languages idea are important to me, the implementation is less important.
In FScript there are important implementation idea (for instance Cocoa
Integration), pulled up to the language level, so it is not easy
divide them.

I have tried before to use scripting in Smalltalk with no much lucky.
GNU Smalltalk and Squeak use a lot of resources, and Java is also quite heavy.
Scripting languages like Perl, Ruby and Python are showed different
ways of doing things.

I think SmallTalk is an optimal glue, even better then AppleScript
or perl.



On 8/29/06, stephen white <st...@ad...> wrote:
> On 29/08/2006, at 4:58 PM, Giovanni Giorgi wrote:
> > We can use reflection to get seamless integration (like BeansShell
> > does) at least at Java Level.
>
> It sounds like you're looking for a language, not F-Script in
> particular.
>
> F-Script is defined by Cocoa first and foremost, then the Array
> aspects, and finally as a Smalltalk dialect. So to truly port F-
> Script, you would need to port Cocoa as well.
>
> The cleanest way to achieve this is to improve the support for
> GNUstep on Windows (which isn't very good - aka, an opportunity for
> you to help!), then port to that environment with Objective C.
>
> Java's really not in the picture at all, unless you want to clone F-
> Script rather than port it.

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