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Communication over Implementation

over 2 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
Last week I wrote a post about some of the statements that percolate in my mind when designing Ioke. What I didn’t mention was that these ideas are things...

The Ioke philosophy

almost 3 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I have in various circumstances used a list of statements, a kind of Ioke manifesto, that tries to give the spirit of what kind of guidelines I use when...

The Ioke object hierarchy

almost 3 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
When designing the core Ioke libraries, I’ve tried to factor things out into different places, as much as possible. This have given rise to a pretty complicated...

Message chains and quoting in Ioke

almost 3 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
One of the more advanced features in Ioke is the ability to work with first class messages. At the end of the day, you are manipulating the AST directly...

Hijacking Ioke syntax

almost 3 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
One of the nicer things with Ioke is that the syntax is highly flexible. This means that features that are generally considered part of the parsing step...

The Ioke reflector

almost 3 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
Ioke is a very object oriented language. The amount of concepts in it is also quite small. I’ve tried to factor the implementation into smaller pieces...

JtestR 0.4 Released

almost 3 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I have just released version 0.4 of JtestR. This version doesn’t really provide any new features - instead it contains updates to all included libraries...

Ioke talk at the Chicago ACM

almost 3 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
On June 10th, I will give a talk about Ioke at the Chicago ACM. This is very exciting, and I hope to see many languages people there. It’s bound to be...

RailsWayCon coming up

almost 3 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
It is less than a month to RailsWayCon in Berlin, so I thought I’d mention it here. This look like it will be a very nice conference. The dates are May...

Ioke geek night in London

almost 3 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I will hold a presentation about Ioke in London, Thursday 14th. This will be held at Skills Matters location. You can find more information, and sign up...