GIGO: words unreadable aloud

Lightweight subjects

So, I'm down to 140 unread messages in the Lightweight Languages list, and I looked at the subject lines. I found messages on the following topics, which I collected here mostly for my own benefit ... for when and if I make the time to read more of these papers.

An "accumulator" example -- a function like this Common Lisp example:
(defun genacc (n) (lambda (i) (incf n i)))
I.e., a that returns a function which includes its own mutable state / closure.
Paul Graham's claims that "succinctness = power" in a programming language. Overstated, as usual (APL or J or K, anyone?) but leading to a lot of discussion.
Implementing Design Patterns as macros? http://computer.org/proceedings/hicss/0493/04938/04938054abs.htm
Explicit Programming: the ELIDE tool. http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/spl/projects/explicit.html
A cool implementation of a powerful kind of macro that can implement "Aspect Oriented Programming".
static vs dynamic types, and crappy static type systems like C's or C++'s, vs good ones like ML's or Haskell's.
macros
the Zen of Python
the Icon programming language (with Goal-Directed evaluation)
"Programming with Agents: New metaphors for thinking about computation" by Michael Travers? http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~mt/diss/index.html
Amike via Henning suggests that "this text is of high relevancy to language design. A must-read! and it does a great job of clarifying and justifying the role of metaphorical thinking in CS/lang-des."
And also suggests take a look at FPS by Thomas Kühne for an interesting description of the possibilities and conditions for integrating OO and FP concepts in one lang.
http://www-agce.informatik.uni-kl.de/~kuehne/fps/

So ... where the heck were all these people in April? Spring Break?
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