Comments on: Introduction to Sheeple http://sykosomatic.org/2009/07/sheeple/?&owa_medium=feed&owa_sid= Programming, web technologies, game design, and Free Software Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:23:26 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sykopomp http://sykosomatic.org/2009/07/sheeple/comment-page-1/#comment-5 sykopomp Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:32:41 +0000 http://sykosomatic.org/wordpress/?p=7#comment-5 http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.06/06.08/PearlLisp/index.html Is an interesting overview of Object Lisp. From what I can tell, Object Lisp also does differential inheritance. The two biggest differences I've noticed so far, though, are: 1. Object Lisp is singly-dispatched -- you declare methods (objfuns) on single existing objects. Sheeple does multiple dispatch with semantics like CLOS. 2. OL keeps 'class' objects in the same namespace, apparently in dynamic variables? Sheeple has a separate namespace for all 'class' objects (which are called protos). Sheeple itself doesn't make a distinction between the objects themselves, and the defproto form is there mostly for how convenient it is for lisp-style interactive development (you can re-evaluate the form, and the object is mutated while retaining identity). I'm not sure exactly how defobject works. Those seem to be the two most obvious differences. I'm sure digging in would oust more stuff. http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.06/06.08/PearlLisp/index.html Is an interesting overview of Object Lisp.

From what I can tell, Object Lisp also does differential inheritance. The two biggest differences I’ve noticed so far, though, are:

1. Object Lisp is singly-dispatched — you declare methods (objfuns) on single existing objects. Sheeple does multiple dispatch with semantics like CLOS.

2. OL keeps ‘class’ objects in the same namespace, apparently in dynamic variables? Sheeple has a separate namespace for all ‘class’ objects (which are called protos). Sheeple itself doesn’t make a distinction between the objects themselves, and the defproto form is there mostly for how convenient it is for lisp-style interactive development (you can re-evaluate the form, and the object is mutated while retaining identity). I’m not sure exactly how defobject works.

Those seem to be the two most obvious differences. I’m sure digging in would oust more stuff.

]]> By: foo http://sykosomatic.org/2009/07/sheeple/comment-page-1/#comment-4 foo Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:25:11 +0000 http://sykosomatic.org/wordpress/?p=7#comment-4 How is it different from Object Lisp? How is it different from Object Lisp?

]]> By: Adlai http://sykosomatic.org/2009/07/sheeple/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Adlai Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:31:12 +0000 http://sykosomatic.org/wordpress/?p=7#comment-3 Weird, the links didn't come through. http://www.github.com/sykopomp/sykosomatic http://www.github.com/sykopomp/sykobot Weird, the links didn’t come through.

http://www.github.com/sykopomp/sykosomatic
http://www.github.com/sykopomp/sykobot

]]> By: Adlai http://sykosomatic.org/2009/07/sheeple/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Adlai Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:52:07 +0000 http://sykosomatic.org/wordpress/?p=7#comment-2 This is all very interesting... I just thought there should also be mention of applications using Sheeple: Sykosomatic -- Sykobot -- See for yourself: Sheeple works! Sykoedit: This doesn't sound astroturfy at -all-, amirite? This is all very interesting… I just thought there should also be mention of applications using Sheeple:

Sykosomatic —
Sykobot —

See for yourself: Sheeple works!

Sykoedit: This doesn’t sound astroturfy at -all-, amirite?

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