The problem with Haskell, LUA, and Objective Caml which are all languages I have thought of doing one in are they do not have an easy way to access the Win32 environment or some way to create a dialog type application. I keep them on the list of programs I will write one in but haven't got around to it because it is almost as much work as the one I wrote in LISP. If someone writes them first more power to them but what essentially these will end up being is direct calls to Win32 and a bit of the programming languages structure and syntax. When I came up with the Fruit Basket idea I didn't think of this kind of language maybe we should come up with another test program that instead of displaying a graphical interface does a lot of work like looping, conditionals, functions or methods, Not really to do anything important but to show what the language is like when using it. Ken -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 5:05 AM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Fruit basket program in Boo, Other Script Langs Would you consider doing one in Groovy? How about JRuby? I would also like to see ones in LUA, Delphi, and Haskell. When IronRuby is released by Microsoft, I will try to do one in that language. It is analagous to IronPython -- in this case, a full Ruby implementation built on the .NET platform. Jamal On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Veli-Pekka Tätilä wrote: > Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:46:22 +0300 > From: Veli-Pekka Tätilä <vtatila@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Fruit basket program in Boo, Other Script Langs > > Hi list, > Interesting to see more exotic scripting langs like Boo here. Does > anyone here know Lua, by the way? > Another lang that should be included is the Java way into scripting, > namely Groovy: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_%28programming_language%29 > > What's the MS equivalent, i.e. is there a .NET based scripting > language out there? I do know there's VBA and the Windows Power Shell > but not sure if I'd classify either as a scripting lang directly. More > like domain specific environments. > > -- > With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä (vtatila@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and programming: > http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila > > Jamal Mazrui wrote: > > > > >From the zip archive at > > http://www.EmpowermentZone.com/boo_fruit.zip > > > > This fruit basket program is written in Boo -- Full source code in > > the zip archive and pasted below. The batch file compile.bat > > invokes the command-line compiler for this scripting language. The > > resulting executable, boo_fruit.exe, is about 12K in size. No other > > files are needed to run the program -- as long as the .NET Framework > > 2.0 is installed. > > > > Boo borrows syntax from Python, seeks to improve it, and combine > > strengths of both static and dynamic languages. Its home page is at > > http://boo.codehaus.org Boo resources, including the interpreter, > > compiler, documentation, and examples are available from there. > > > > I am still learning Boo, but was able to produce a working program > > by converting the first C# fruit basket program I did via a web form > > available at http://codeconverter.sharpdevelop.net/Convert.aspx > > For comparison, the C# code is available in the file cs_fruit.cs. > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind