Diesel?


Subject: Diesel?
From: Alain Van Kerm (alain.van_kerm@etca.alcatel.be)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2000 - 09:46:39 PST


The message below recently came up on comp.lang.misc which
reminds me I've read somewhere that Cecil would have a successor
called Diesel. I'd be interested to know if it's still the case,
and, if yes, what's its current status?

Alain

>Subject: Cecil (was: Looking for a new language)
>Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:38:28 +0100
>
>Harry Chomsky <harryc@chomsky.net> wrote:
>
>> A static type system like Cecil's ought to be able to solve these problems.
>> But Cecil's type system includes several constructs not present in Dylan,
>> such as signatures and parametrization. (And, unfortunately, the current
>> implementation of Cecil's type-checker is incomplete.)
>
>I recently looked around at
><http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/cecil/www/cecil-home.htm
>l> and its vicinity and found that nothing has changed for a pretty long
>time. Does anyone know what the current status of Cecil is?

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Harry Chomsky <harryc@chomsky.net> wrote:

> A static type system like Cecil's ought to be able to solve these problems.
> But Cecil's type system includes several constructs not present in Dylan,
> such as signatures and parametrization. (And, unfortunately, the current
> implementation of Cecil's type-checker is incomplete.)

I recently looked around at
<http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/cecil/www/cecil-home.htm
l> and its vicinity and found that nothing has changed for a pretty long
time. Does anyone know what the current status of Cecil is?

Michael

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