Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of The Needle Programming Language - savannah.nongnu.org

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hi,

I aproved your project.


On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 09:46:12AM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
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> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
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> Neel Krishnaswami <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: expat
> Other License: 
> Package: The Needle Programming Language
> System name: needle
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> Needle is a statically typed, higher-order functional, object-oriented 
> language, with a multiple dispatch/generic function based OO model and a 
> class system with parameterized classes and type inference to eliminate 
> writing most type declarations. It is an awful lot like the offspring of a 
> drunken one-night stand between CLOS and ML. It makes use of a lot of very 
> recent research in programming language design, which I want to make these 
> innovations available to people doing scripting style programming. Advanced 
> language design research is no goo d until it successfully transitions into 
> widespread use, and I mean to help push some of it into the wild. I\'ve 
> implemented a bytecode compiler and interpreter, and am planning on giving a 
> talk about Needle at the LL2 language design workshop. I would like to set up 
> a public repository from which people can download and play with Needle 
> before the workshop begins. Needle currently has an implementation in Ocaml, 
> but no significant runtime library.
> 
> You can download it from <http://neelk.dyndns.org:8080/needle-0.01.tgz>
> 
> 
> Other Software Required:
> Needle requires the Ocaml language to compile. Ocaml is a free and 
> open-source functional language available from <http://www.ocaml.org>
> 
> Other Comments:
> This is a resubmission of the project that Rudy Gevaert asked for, to fix 
> some license bugs in my package. 
> 
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