Did you know about Intentional programming technological advances ?

Hi List, Just in case you didn't know about the True future of programming as I always myself thought about the way it should/would be done one of these days - and many other greater talents than me also did in the past : John Von Nemann, John Backus and Grace Hopper to mention a few of them - here is the first real concrete milestone to be reached in this direction. For sure the author of this tour de force is Charles Simonyi who left Xerox Parc a few years ago and MS more recently to start his own Intentional software (intentsoft dot com) company. I'm sure REBOL can propel us somewhere not too far of this planet too ... as it represents THE tool to be used to get the underlying easily feasible, while standing powerful, flexible and small enough to get the job well done. Here are 2 links : One from the famous DSL author Martin Fowler and the other from SDtimes dot com author Larry O'Brien (June, 9th 2009) martinfowler dot com - bliki - IntentionalSoftware dot html ---> follow the 2009 DSL devcon demo link and listen or view to it (huge files : 448 MB for the WMV, 195 MB for the MP4 and 1.4 MB for the PDF slides only) www dot sdtimes dot com - WINDOWS__NET_WATCH_INTENTIONAL_S_CHROME_IF_NOT_SILVER_BULLET - By_Larry_O_Brien - About_DOMAINSPECIFICLANGUAGES_and_MICROSOFT - 33526 Happy new year everybody ! -- G=E9rard C=F4t=E9 Qu=E9bec, Canada

Hi Gérard, I had hopes for Intentional...for a while. I still hope they do great things, but they suffer the same problem as REBOL (only much worse): Product visibility. It was nice to hear they might actually show something to the world at some point though. :) -- Gregg

Hi Gregg, Being retired, I now have all my free time to wait for results ... ;-) Nevertheless I must admit that results are not very visible even if some of them are commercially available -but generally deliver to some niche markets, as shown here : http://softwaregenerators.com/related_work.html The AOG system's approach taken by Mr. BiggerStaff seems promising too - he uses some DSLs to support his program generation work. See http://softwaregenerators.com/RecentWork.html about the new Control structure he's using. Regards, Gerard ========================== ========================== ==== 2010/1/3 Gregg Irwin <gregg-pointillistic.com>:

> Hi G=E9rard, > I had hopes for Intentional...for a while. I still hope they do great > To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to > lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.