"Bazar" proposal

[Kyle Lahnakoski]

Your Bazar is similar to my Messaging State Machine.  

http://www.arcavia.com/rd/dbc-html/MSMModel.html

It differs in its model of branching.

Armin Rigo wrote:
> 
> Hello everbody,
> 
> I have been working independently on some Tunes-based concepts and I must
> admit (I guess I will be flamed :-) that I find Slate much too rich for a
> language to base Tunes on.
> 
> As far as I understand Fare's opinions (see e.g. the messages on threads)
> the primary point of Tunes should be reflexivitly, on which we (or anybody
> else) can build everything else. Reflexivity is a key point to be able to
> analyze a program's behaviour at any time, and adapt various pieces of
> codes to work together when an optimizer decides they would well fit, like
> some application with some particuliar memory manager.
> 
> This idea that there is not one solution which is the best in all cases
> extends to my opinion to the programming language : I like Slate's complex
> metasystem, message-passings, attributes, etc., but all this should not in
> my opinion be part of the very language we base all Tunes on.
> 
> I have been trying for a long time to push my research in the direction of
> an elementary "language" that describes the "world" in which everything
> "lives". The first results are here.
> 
> I missed the mailing list switches in June, and so thought everyone had
> forgotten about Tunes ! I'd have written here much earlier otherwise...
> Well. Anyway, the test programs I have perform reasonably well; now I am
> sure I can propose this concept to you :
> 
>   http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~arigo/bazar/infobase
> 
> I guess you prefer the link instead of a long, long e-mail. If you don't
> just tell. The link discusses the very basics of "Bazar", while repeating
> some general concepts we all agree on; when I have time I will write with
> more details how Bazar actually adresses all these concepts.
> 
> A bientot,
> 
> Armin.

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Kyle Lahnakoski                                  Arcavia Software Ltd.
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