[Ometa] Relationship to Roy/Haridi's book

[Alessandro Warth]

Hi Andrey,

Alan and I looked at that book as a potential source of inspiration /
programming language ideas that might be useful for STEPS, and that we might
implement using OMeta. But the design of OMeta itself was not inspired by it
-- OMeta's main influences were Schorre's
META-II<http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3D808896>and Tesler et
al.'s
LISP70 <http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3D1624856>.

Cheers,
Alex

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Andrey Fedorov <anfedorov at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been reading Roy and Haridi's "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of
> Computer Programming", and the intuition behind the book seems to
> significantly align with what OMeta and VPRI's "Fundamental New Computing
> Technologies" seem to advocate. In particular, the book goes about
> introducing the reader to various "kernel" languages, which are what I th=
ink
> Alan Kay referred to as "crystallizations of style" [1].
>
> Ian: is any of your work on OMeta influenced by this book, or do you share
> a common influence with the authors?
>
> Or am I just imagining the relationship?
>
> - Andrey
>
> 1. http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html
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