[pro] The Best Examples of "Code is Data"

Samium Gromoff _deepfire at feelingofgreen.ru
Tue Sep 7 06:14:07 UTC 2010


On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 12:26:41 -0700, "Scott L. Burson" <Scott at sympoiesis.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Paul Tarvydas <tarvydas at allstream.net> wrote:
> > 1. Doug Hoyte's book Let Over Lambda, chapter 6.3 Alet and Finite State Machines, raised my macrology to a new level.  I used his ideas to implement a full-blown hierarchical state machine macro(s) (roughly 200 lines of CL, too large to post here).  The hierarchical state machine paradigm is great for programming reactive things, e.g. gui's, hardware controllers, etc.
> 
> If you're willing to share this I'd love to see it.  Maybe put it on
> paste.lisp.org?  Or maybe it even deserves to be a common-lisp.net
> project?

I'd love to see it likewise!

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regards,
  Samium Gromoff
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"Actually I made up the term 'object-oriented', and I can tell you I
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