Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!sunic!trane.uninett.no!eunet.no!nuug!EU.net!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!network.ucsd.edu!mbk From: mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: BETA and X-Windows (was: Re: LISP and X-Windows) Date: 24 Sep 1994 23:41:31 GMT Organization: Institute For Nonlinear Science, UCSD Lines: 33 Message-ID: <362dfc$84v@network.ucsd.edu> References: <35bn78$ms@belfort.daimi.aau.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lyapunov.ucsd.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Jacob Seligmann (jacobse@daimi.aau.dk) wrote: : Peter da Silva wrote: : > Jacob Seligmann wrote: : > : > > AwEnv(# do (&label(# init:: (# do 'Hello world' -> label #) #)[]).init #) : > : > Why do all these new languages people come up with always end up looking : > like someone decided Lisp was too readable and added a handful of TECO and : > a splash of Forth to the mix? : Admitted, you probably do need a firm grasp of BETA to appreciate the : above concoction of just about every single syntactic construction : available in the language (inheritance, anonymous pattern, virtual : binding, assignment, instantiation, dereferencing, computed remote, : etc.) into a single expression! : It's a complex combination, and it's complex to read (especially when : written as a one-liner, and even more so if you're unfamiliar with the : terse syntax), but I still believe it is an excellent demonstration of : BETA's orthogonality. Orthogonal to my brain, certainly. ;-) I'm a newbie---could you "deconstruct" this one-liner? : /Jacob Seligmann -- -Matt Kennel mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu -Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego -*** AD: Archive for nonlinear dynamics papers & programs: FTP to -*** lyapunov.ucsd.edu, username "anonymous".