some fixes + current status

[Brian Rice]

At 12:45 PM 5/27/00 -0700, Tril wrote:
>http://www.tunes.org/~water/slate-semantics.html, in the paragraph that
>begins "Built-in support for behavioral reflection:", there is an Update:
>which trails off and doesn't finish its sentence.

That was supposed to discuss the Guarana meta-object composition approach. 
I'll put something together on that.

>In "Objects (and functions) are blocks:" on the same page, it should begin
>"Unlike the languages Self and Smalltalk", not "Unlike the language..."

Fixed.

>I fixed the mailing list archive; now it actually shows the posts, and
>will update daily.  This post is also a test to see if the list is still
>working, since it's been silent for two months.  :-)

I've been working intensely on the core design and experimenting with the 
results in different directions. Until very recently, all of this would 
have just been confusing to outsiders. However, I have results that I will 
be sharing soon. A Slate dynamic compiler is being developed (back-end 
first) by Lee, but he's still waiting on my final specification of the 
language before development can proceed to the front layers.

>I finished reading all of the Slate page, and it looks pretty good.  Is
>the question still open as to whether Slate will "become part of, or
>become the TUNES HLL?"  Never mind, I'll go catch up on the tunes mailing
>list since that is where it should be discussed.
>
>--
>David Manifold <dem at tunes.org> http://bespin.dhs.org/~dem/
>This message is placed in the public domain.

I have some new answers which will explain the Tunes-related bits, but 
again this will take a little time to put together.

I'm also looking at a new web site structure (Yes, I know there's not much 
there right now ;), but the people (3 of them, separately) who volunteered 
to work on this have yet to produce anything useful.

More updates will follow soon.

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