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Fancy
Emerging Languages Camp
2010
Christopher Bertels
chris@fancy-lang.org
www.fancy-lang.org
Motivation
●Many Language implementations
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Not very well documented
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Hard to read and understand if you're new to this stuff
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Lots of magic
●Fancy
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Focus on documentation for potential language implementors
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Easy and simple semantics
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Newcomer friendly
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Having fun working on the implementation side
–Not just as a language end-user
Inspiration
●Smalltalk
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Everything's an Object
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Pure message sending
–Small amount of special keywords and syntax
–Simple message sending semantics
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Dynamic, class-based OO
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Metaprogramming
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Reflective
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