If this is the general's tent, I want stars

@MichaelT yeah and I think it's not the last time: it turned out an excellent reference for release / packaging role related stuff ;)

Hey, if anyone's alive in here, I'd like some advice on how to improve this question:

Looking at that question, I don't think it's a bad question. It's just not answerable by our user base. I highly doubt any user can give an authoritative answer, and it's just generating speculation. Perhaps there's something out there that explains why the creators of C used curly braces, but given that there's only speculation so far, I don't hold out much hope of that happening.

@MichaelT It's intentional. Migrated posts will eventually be deleted.

If anyone has a link to the PM question, they'll get auto-redirected to Programmers. But if you click on the link in the migration notice, you don't get redirected.

I cleared the migration history from the question. The user hasn't followed it. Hopefully, though, someone who knows about FPA will answer it.

@MichaelT The question has been on P.SE for a long time...

IT was migrated almost a year ago.

@MichaelT I don't know how easy that would be. Technically, it was removed as part of the moderation activities, although it was probably an automated process.

@ThomasOwens bad or not, but question comments appear to degrade into meta content dispute, revision history shows quick closure and even quicker reopen, accompanied with new close votes coming at it- again, making a heavy smell of meta content dispute. Is there an established / common way for moderators to handle stuff like that?

@gnat Flag it and we can lock it down.

There are timed locks. We can make a Meta post (if one doesn't exist), link to it, pull out relevant comments, clean things up, and let people iron things out in Meta appropraitely.

I'd say flag it. I'll ping someone else - I've got a meeting soon.

@ThomasOwens done - thanks for advice

@gnat I managed to do it all before my meeting.

I would appreciate a couple of +s on my comment on the question so it is sure to get attention, if you could.

@MichaelT Oh. Interesting. I thought you could still vote. Never mind, then. Are you all able to see the comment?

Or is it behind one of the "view all comment" buffers?

OK. That works for me. There's also the thread on Meta if you all want to discuss this question.

@MichaelT I felt that Dirk's comment was relevant to the question, so I didn't delete it.

The others were either moved to Meta or just deleted because they were an irrelevant conversation about shift keys.

I'll check in with it after work today, if not sooner.

Anybody know of decent languages that are easy to bootstrap such that they can run compatibly with an interperated language, say, written by the CEO's nephew in 1978?

So, the idea is that you can bootstrap an interperater in BLUB-- or, somehow, can easily compile into BLUB-- (included for completeness)

@WorldEngineer - Which version?

Any reference on how to do the bootstrap? Do I get my metacircular evaluator going and then plug that in or something?

What is SICP? I may have heard it, I'm acronym challenged.

Also, does building the interperater really get the bootstrap done? I can then just throw all the libraries in?

I pretty much get the stuff in that link - but if I try to do C++ in BLUB-- I have to do a lot because C++ just doesn't work that way. I'm looking for an existing language that DOES work that way. (And scheme was my best guess.)

@WorldEngineer Not exactly. I want to embed a better language into 7 billion lines of existing BLUB-- running in the BLUBOTRON72 interperater.

So, if it were possible to write, say, a scheme interpereter in BLUB with a relatively quick bootstrap such that it could quickly run the rest of scheme, that might be a good way to do it.

@WorldEngineer - That's just not true.

The question is whether the embedded language is easy to bootstrap. I have heard that this was either true or a goal for LISP, Smalltalk, and Forth, but I'm not sure how easy they would really be. And Smalltalk has that whole single image thing, which would seem to be problematic.

I have just given away nearly I know about Forth.

That is an interesting article. A finished version of such a thing would be a great read!

@MichaelT Yeah. Just wondering how it's rant, bad, I must be burned alive and then be fed to fish etc.. :) I'll might try to approach it more from teaching point of view of robustness. Like usually sockets are teached somewhat "here's socket, just use it, don't worry about connection problems! it will work!" and this leads to that easy to use function usage.. or something like that.

I'm not native english speaker, so... I just tried to get possible answers from many perspectives with that. like language, os, teaching, etc perspectives