Heist (Scheme in Ruby) 0.2 adds proper list support, better documentation (blog.jcoglan.com) 10 points by ionfish 17y ago ↗ HN
[–] wheels 17y ago ↗ ...running in JRuby in VMWare on an EC2 instance for an abstraction on an abstraction on an abstraction on an abstraction on an abstraction. [–] gills 17y ago ↗ That made my day :)
[–] stcredzero 17y ago ↗ Funny, how the more powerful and elegant a language is, the easier it is to implement. [–] antiismist 17y ago ↗ True. With scheme, you'd only need to implement the core forms to get started: (LAMBDA, SET!, IF, DEFINE & QUOTE) [–] SamReidHughes_ 17y ago ↗ There is no correlation with 'powerful' and it's only natural that elegant languages are easier to implement.
[–] antiismist 17y ago ↗ True. With scheme, you'd only need to implement the core forms to get started: (LAMBDA, SET!, IF, DEFINE & QUOTE)
[–] SamReidHughes_ 17y ago ↗ There is no correlation with 'powerful' and it's only natural that elegant languages are easier to implement.
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