Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of The Needle Programming Language - savannah.nongnu.org

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hi,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 07:06:05AM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Neel Krishnaswami <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: mbsd
> Other License: 
> Package: The Needle Programming Language
> System name: needle
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> Needle is a statically typed, higher-order functional, object-oriented 
> language, with a multiple dispatch/generic function based OO model and a 
> class system with parameterized classes and type inference to eliminate 
> writing most type declarations. It is an awful lot like the offspring of a 
> drunken one-night stand between CLOS and ML. It makes use of a lot of very 
> recent research in programming language design, which I want to make these 
> innovations available to people doing scripting style programming. Advanced 
> language design research is no good until it successfully transitions into 
> widespread use, and I mean to help push some of it into the wild. I\'ve 
> implemented a bytecode compiler and interpreter, and am planning on giving a 
> talk about Needle at the LL2 language design workshop. I would like to set up 
> a public repository from which people can download and play with Needle 
> before the workshop begins. 
> 
> Needle currently has an implementation in Ocaml, but no significant runtime 
> library. You can\'t download it yet because that\'s what I want to use 
> Savannah for. :)
> 
> Other Software Required:
> Needle currently requires the Ocaml language <http://www.ocaml.org> to 
> compile. Once the design firms up, I\'ll recode it in C to make it widely 
> portable. 


Could you create a tarball with the code as it
now exists and make it available to a temporary URL
(and add this url to your description while submitting
the project)? (Else mail it to me if < 250kb)

We want to help you fix potential legal issues.
For example, in order to release your project under
the GPL you should write copyright notices and copying
permission statements at the beginning of every source code
file, following the advice of
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html

Could you also give me some more information about
http://www.ocaml.org?  Is it a free (as in freedom) language?


Rudy

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