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@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +#author Matthias Benkard +#date 2008-06-14 - <lisp>(format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d")</lisp> +#title Mulklisp Development Diary +#desc Random news and stuff about just another random pet project + +; Time-stamp: <2008-06-14 17:00:29 mulk> +; +; C-c i t insert-time-stamp +; C-c C-t muse-project-publish-this-file +; C-c C-e muse-edit-link-at-point +; C-c C-i muse-insert-thing + + +---- + +Context: [[http://matthias.benkard.de/mulklisp][The Mulklisp Project]]. + +---- + + +* 2008-06-14, 16:41:55 CEST + +** Another Random Piece of Vaporware is Born + +Here I go again, starting yet another little pet software project whose +chance of surviving for more than a few months is limited, but hey, it'd +not be me if I didn't start bragging about it before having written even +a single line of code, right? So here we go! + +I intend Mulklisp (which is obviously a preliminary, WebShaka-style +proto-name) to become a Lisp compiler for the Étoilé runtime (and maybe +Mac OS X as well, but that's of a lower priority) with the following +features: + + * A proper subset of ANSI Common Lisp, with an eye towards full ANSI + compliance in the far future. + * CFFI support. + * Lexical **and** dynamic scoping. + * Integration with the Étoilé object system. + * DEFMACRO. + * Hygienic macros by way of Explicit Renaming and Syntactic Closures. + * Read macros. (?) + * TAGBODY and GO. (?) + * CATCH and THROW. (?) + * Places (that is, SETF). + * A package system. + * Arrays and hash tables compatible with their Common Lisp counterparts, + but based on the Étoilé/GNUstep ones. + * Direct compilation to Étoilé runtime code (as with Étoilé Smalltalk). + * A REPL. + * Conditions and restarts. + * Multiple namespaces. + * Bignums and rationals. + * JIT and explicit compilation (COMPILE) via LLVM. (?) + * Optional static typing with Cells-based/Hindley-Milner/whatever type + inference. (?) + +Well, that's what I'm dreaming of. At least now you have something new +to joke about in place of Duke Nukem Forever (which is coming out +Practically Tomorrow! Preorder today!). + +Maybe I ought to change my nickname from Kompottkin to Vaporwarepottkin. + + +---- + +*Matthias Benkard, <lisp>(format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d, %k:%M %Z")</lisp>* + +http://matthias.benkard.de/ + +; Local Variables: +; mode: muse +; End: |