Barry Schwartz 🫖Mar 24, 2023

I added #OwlLisp to the repertoire of my answers to the #ContinuedFractions arithmetic draft-task on #RosettaCode:

Continued fraction/Arithmetic/G(matrix ng, continued fraction n1, continued fraction n2) - Rosetta Code https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Continued_fraction/Arithmetic/G(matrix_ng,_continued_fraction_n1,_continued_fraction_n2)#Owl_Lisp

#scheme #lisp #FunctionalProgramming

Show threadBarry Schwartz 🫖

Some things I’m used to having work in #Scheme did not work, it seems in part due to implementation limitations. But also because some things I expected to be procedures were NOT procedures.

In other cases, it was that most Schemes did a thing by assigning a value to a variable, whereas #OwlLisp was doing it a different way (without syntactic sugar available to make the expected way work).

Mar 24, 2023 at 4:15pmWeb
Show threadBarry Schwartz 🫖Mar 24, 2023
Obviously I could not use "set!" or anything like that, such as I have used in Scheme and #CommonLisp examples for the continued fractions tasks.
Show threadBarry Schwartz 🫖Mar 24, 2023
Also #OwlLisp does not follow SRFI-1 or anything like it in argument lists. I had to keep the compiler's source code handy to look up, for instance, how to call "lunfold".
Show threadBarry Schwartz 🫖Mar 24, 2023

Tangentially related:

I added the language page for Owl Lisp (easily confused with Otus Lisp, whose page is "Ol"). It was not difficult.

Soooo ... I’m thinking I should add a page for Goaldi, simply because I did one task in Goaldi. Goaldi is an inactive project, and I’ve even removed it from my system, but the things works. And someone might take it on for themself (though my impression is you should use Object Icon, instead. :) Even though currently in stasis).

Show threadBarry Schwartz 🫖Mar 24, 2023

There, it’s done. With cross-references throughout the Icon-ic world. And I also added redirects for ‘Object Icon’ instead of the ‘ObjectIcon’ that someone (Clint Jeffery?) spelt it as. Parlett generally spelt it as two words.

(But would merge the words for things like webpage names.)

Show threadBarry Schwartz 🫖Mar 24, 2023
I really would like to see Object Icon survive BTW. But I should add real installation support to it. (I mean POSIX installation, not godforsaken Windows or MacOS installation. Anyway, POSIX installation actually works on MacOS, for such command-line tools. But I’m unlikely to make sure you can compile a thing with cl*ng instead of gcc.)