Slate: extreme optimization

[Lyndon Tremblay]

So, this is called Slate, and these .slate files, is it just me that sees
this inconsistance? Rather, too much consistance if the future expects less
of it? The reason I didn't realise that Slate "isn't the only language" for
... Slate.

Clarification on current protocols regarding multilingual expansion? Pidgin
files are also .slate, using the same emacs syntaxer (leveraging off
smalltalk-mode.el), etc etc.

This is quite interesting though, but how to avoid the .NET-isms of multiple
and transparent language support? If there are any.

--Lyndon

> Nothing stops you from embedding a more efficient numerics language in
> Slate. We already do exactly this with Pidgin for writing the VM! We are
> a system, NOT just a language. A system can encompass multiple
> languages, and to some extent Slate is a system of multiple languages
> and may be moreso in the future.
>
> Lee
>
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 05:42:12PM +0200, Waldemar Kornewald wrote:
> > You only talk about the tasks that Slate fits best. Slate is easy to
learn and use, powerful, etc., but when you want to write a fast embedded OS
for your multimedia-station in your living-room or when you want to write a
video codec, you will not even get a fast FFT algorithm.
> > You don't know how hard it would be to implement that, do you? :)
> >
> > Bye,
> > Waldemar
> >