[ruby-talk:04280] Re: Ruby.next, Perl6, Python 3000, Tcl++, etc.-- Any opportunities for common implementation code?

Hi,

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> > > While listening to a performance of List's piano transcription of
> > > Beethoven's 6 symphony,
> > May Bach forgive me!
> > In case anyone tries to look that up "List", that should have been "Liszt",
> > as in Franz Liszt, the Hungarian classical composer.
>
> Franz Liszt? wouldn't that be Franz LISP ?
>
> =)

Ah, yes! Indeed, I got a copy of Franz LISP some years ago (for a project that was
canceled soon thereafter due to the client's untimely divorce). I was impressed
with the flexibility of it's GUI stuff. I think that's probably another tacit
inspiration for try-it (transformational Ruby-yielding interactive toolkit), which
I hope will develop into a viable, hybrid, GUI-text, self-extendable, application
interface framework for people's various programs, scripts, and tools. I think of
Ruby as (among other things) something of a humanized CLOS (which may simply be
because I never became well-aquainted with CLOS).

--
Conrad Schneiker
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