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From the ancestral line of Lisp, we now have another new scripting language for .NET. LSharp "uses a Lisp dialect similar to Arc." LSharp is Open Source (GPL). More information is available on Rob Blackwell's Web Log.
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Descending from the heritage of Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon, Zonnon is a new language for .NET. According to the Zonnon website, "It retains an emphasis on simplicity, clear syntax and separation of concerns whilst focusing on concurrency and ease of composition and expression. Unification of abstractions is at the heart of its design and this is reflected in its conceptual model based on modules, objects, definitions and implementations. Zonnon offers a new computing model based on active objects with their interaction defined by syntax controlled dialogs. It also introduces new features including operator overloading and exception handling, and is specifically designed to be platform independent."
Lofty goals, indeed!
While the first implementation of Zonnon is for .NET, it aims at platform independence. The .NET implementation includes Microsoft Visual Studio.NET integration but also provides Zonnon Builder, an "alternative simple IDE."
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I am happy to introduce PocketMod, "the free disposable personal organizer," one of the coolest little inventions I have seen in some time. For years I have folded up 8.5 * 11 inch paper in varoius ways to make myself little notepads I could carry around in my back pocket or shirt pocket. I am furious with myself that I wasn't smart enough to do what the creator of PocketMod did! No, I'm not going to spoil the fun; you have to go there to find out what this is all about.
P.S. Usually, we celebrate inventors who use the latest and coolest high technology and who require millions, if not billions, of dollars of startup capital to get their projects or products off the ground. To me, however, the person who can invent a really new and useful item based upon the unique qualities of a single sheet of ordinary typing paper is truly an inventive genius. I don't even know the name of the inventor of PocketMod, but I do know the work of a master inventor when I see it! Kudos and thanks for sharing!
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