[Jscheme-user] Fwd: Tim Bray, Java, Dynamic Languages, ...

[Ken A. <kan...@bb...>]

Unfortunately, JScheme and SISC seem to be below their radar screen.

This poll: http://jroller.com/page/viva/20041210
doesn't mention us either.



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>To: Ken Anderson <kan...@bb...>
>From: Geoffrey Knauth <ge...@kn...>
>Subject: Tim Bray, Java, Dynamic Languages, ...
>Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:06:26 -0500
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>http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/view/426
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>Tim Bray:  So on Tuesday we held a summit here at Sun, with a few of our=
 internal Java leaders, and on the dynamic-languages side, Larry Wall and=
 Dan Sugalski (Perl and Parrot), Guido van Rossum, Samuele Pedroni and Se=
an McGrath (Python), and James Strachan (Groovy). It was an educational d=
ay for us; herewith some take-aways and pictures.
>
>Everyone and his sister is linking to this blog post, so you might have =
seen it already.
>
>For a touch of flavor, here=92s just part of the list that of things to =
discuss that Larry had prepared: anonymous code/closures, lvalue methods/=
functions, variadic call/return, constant/rw/copy/ref/lazy parameters, wr=
appers/AOP, eval, exception handling/undef/nil/unthrown exceptions, excep=
tion handlers with lexical access, temporization/hypotheticality, efficie=
nt regex with complete semantics, access to dynamic context/want/caller, =
redispatch of methods (fallback upon "fail"), efficient switch statement?=
, versioned modules/classes, virtual classnames, continuations.