[Ometa] Relationship to Roy/Haridi's book

[Andrey Fedorov]

Ah, glad to hear I wasn't imagining it. And yes, I was thinking of STEPS,
thanks for clarifying. And thanks for the link to LISP70, as well - it looks
really interesting.

Do you have any similar recommendations for further reading related to the
inspiration for STEPS?

Cheers,
Andrey

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Alessandro Warth <alexwarth at gmail.com>wro=
te:

> 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 mi=
ght
> 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/c=
itation.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>wrot=
e:
>
>> 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 t=
hink
>> Alan Kay referred to as "crystallizations of style" [1].
>>
>> Ian: is any of your work on OMeta influenced by this book, or do you sha=
re
>> 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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