Rick Minerich's Development Wonderland : IS

The Cursed History of Smalltalk in .NET

RickM — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:44:00 GMT

After my last blog post, due to some of the responses, I decided to spend some time with Smalltalk. As a DotNET developer by trade, I wanted to see what kinds of options were available for use on the CLR. Unfortunately, out of the five different DotNET...(read more)

Why Are Our Programs Still Represented by Flat Files?

RickM — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:45:00 GMT

It's time to leave the secondary, external structure of our programs behind. If you can treat the reflected code from a programming language like an abstract data structure, why can’t you just keep the source itself in a similarly abstracted data structure?...(read more)

IS - The Meta-Meta Language-Language (and parametric compiler)

RickM — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:48:00 GMT

Ian Piumarta and some very smart folks over at the Viewpoints Research Institute have been working on a meta programming language named IS which is specifically designed for implementing other languages. The project actually has several names (IS, idst,...(read more)