RE: Fruit basket program in Boo, Other Script Langs

  • From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:10:31 -0700


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.
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