Would Tunes be interested in this Object manager...?

[Marcus Petersson]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 mdanish@andrew.cmu.edu wrote:

> I highly recommend that you familiarize yourself with the object systems
> and ideas of as many languages as possible, and perhaps you will begin
> to realize why what you are proposing is amusing to us.

Maybe (though that could take a million years if interpreted literally).
I certainly don't see why it would be amusing to you. Have Tunes produced
some object system that I'm unaware of? Please provide a link if so.

> And perhaps you should think more on why Fare recommended you not use
> C as a prototype language.  Perhaps after learning about the expressivity
> of the numerous unhandicapped languages out there, you will understand

Hmm, where to begin? Apart from C and C++ I have used some ADA, Forth, Java
ML, Python, Rebol, Simula, and probably some other stuff I forgot. And a
little E-Lisp to do some Emacs modes. None of those will do.

> this better: C is not used out of its inherent qualities but rather as
> the historical burden that has been placed on us by Unix and its ilk.

Of course, but who am I to battle the results of history? Would you 
propose that I should rather choose some other langauge that compiles
down to C, or directly to binary?

Hmm, perhaps some Lisp variant (CL?) would be fine. E-Lisp taught me that
I might learn to actually like Lisp, except for some of the syntax. What's
the best (and most Tunes-ish) variant of Lisp you know of? Which has the
best support for many platforms, and produces fast code (comparable to C)?

Marcus
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