http://www.osnews.com/story/21780/A_Second_Order_Virtual_Machine_with_Falcon Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 21 May 2013 01:40:51 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?371910 http://www.osnews.com/thread?371910 I know I haven't finished my Software Engineering degree, and computer science wasn't stressed very much, but why would someone want to do this?
Additionally, what makes Falcon better for executing a list of functions than, say, Python? Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hufman) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?371996 http://www.osnews.com/thread?371996 Is there something new here - besides a burning desire to make up a clumsy buzz word?

If there is, the author failed to make it clear.

Better to spend equivalent time seeking inspiration from studying The Little Schemer than this muddled combination of functors and eval code. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (braddock) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?372008 http://www.osnews.com/thread?372008 I think what he was really trying to achieve is a poor man's version of Common Lisp macros.

I could be wrong though, the whole article is convoluted and the author only hints as to the purpose and possible benefits of his contraption. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (flynn) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?372027 http://www.osnews.com/thread?372027 Somehow, I thought that someone finally emulated Atari Falcon 030. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (strim) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?372042 http://www.osnews.com/thread?372042 "Lately, the Falcon Programming Language has attracted growing interest and excited a deal of curiosity."

Not in my RSS feeds. BTW, taking a look at the falcon's quickstart and reference guides, it seems quite similar to MATLAB, which is probably one of the worst programming language I've ever used Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kilburn) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?372185 http://www.osnews.com/thread?372185 what's the difference between a 1st order and 2nd order VM? Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (project_2501) Comments