Kurt Stephens

50th anniversary of Objects? – Alan Kay

http://tele-task.de/archive/video/flash/14029/

http://ftp.squeak.org/Media/AlanKay/Alan%20Kay%20at%20OOPSLA%201997%20-%...

It still hasn’t happened.

Dr. Kay said “The Art of the Metaobject Protocol”
Gregor Kiczales, Jim des Rivières and Daniel G. Bobrow was the best book in 10 years, but wished it had not be written with a Lisp frame-of-reference.

Download: http://github.com/kstephens/ll/tree/master

LL is:

An embeddable pure, class-based, object Lisp system C library with multiple inheritance and mix-in support based on ideas from Scheme, Oaklisp and Dylan. Clean namespace and proper tail calls in C.

Version 0.15:

• Adds a method lookup cache at all call sites, including primitive C code, reduces full method lookups by over 80%.
• Relies on Bohem GC 7.0 (included).
• Passes R4RS tests.
• Improved bytecode compiler and constant folding on non-side-effecting methods.
• Compiles with GCC 4.1.3.

• call/cc is partially supported.