What was this _not so implemented_ petri net language looking like?
I'd be interested to know how what you came with (even if it's far
from complete...).
On 4/26/06, Phil Frost <indigo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 03:48:51PM -0400, Jacques Mony wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Some people recently wrote to the list, stating that they would work
> > on persistence and other issues.
> >
> > Is that still being worked on? Who's doing something at the moment?
> >
> > --
> > Jacques Mony
>
> Well, not a whole lot, but something more than usual. About 2 weeks ago
> I went to Toronto and did some hacking with cris and doobie. The goal
> was to prototype a petri-net based programming language. We uh...fell
> somewhat erm..."short" of that goal. Anyway, there is a very basic GUI
> in the repository now that needs only a little work, and somewhere there
> is some code which was to be the interpreter to run the petri nets.
> (will someone commit that? maybe even *cough* finish it? :) )
>
> At least my feeling is that we need some programming language better
> than python. I'd really hope one already exists, but it's so hard to
> really try them all, and writing languages is just so much *FUN*.
>
> However, what I'd like to do is set up some template for language
> reviews. These would include all the points that are important to Uuu,
> such as:
>
> - what features of the language allow sane parallel execution? This
> includes things from fine to coarse graunlarity, from parallelizing
> instructions for a superscalar CPU, to finding multiple threads for an
> SMP box, to network distributed computing.
>
> - does the language work well with a single, persistent address space model?
>
> - does the language provide a good way to handle upgrades of data from
> old to new code?
>
> - can the language be represented well in a way more structured than
> plain text?
>
> - is the language efficient in execution? If it's bad, is it so because
> of the language design, or the implementation?
>
> I could probably elaborate on these and find some more points later. We
> could start now a list of languages to evaluate:
>
> python
> smalltalk
> ocaml
> lisp, and flavors
> haskell
> ruby
> ada
>
> I'm sure people can add more languages to this list. All you who have
> come into the channel to rant and rave about your favorite language, now
> is your time!
>
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Jacques Mony
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