Tuesday, May 21, 2002

Ok, here's the latest on the Goo .NET. Download the goodotnet3.zip file (~330Kb). Install the Goo 133 distribution for Windows. Unzip goodotnet3.zip so that the files replace the existing files in your Goo 133 installation (ie. The 'C' directory in the archive should unzip to the 'C' directory in your installation, etc). Make sure your paths are correctly set up for Microsoft .NET development. Run build.bat from the goo/c/g2c directory. This will create a goodotnet.exe in the same directory. This will run to a standard Goo read-eval-print loop but under .NET. Congratulations! More later. 11:53:46 PM

Dan also mentions SmallScript. I also use SmallScript occasionally. The socket and NNTP library that ships with the current SmallScript seed was thrown together by me. The NNTP library was a port from nttp.dylan which was in turn a port from nntp.lisp. SmallScript is a Smalltalk superset with multi method dispatch, and many other nice features. It's fun to use. 11:14:29 PM

Dan Monix mentions some of the various languages he's playing around with (or plans to play with) on .NET. One of them is Goo. This reminds me that I need to get busy on making available my latest .NET stuff for Goo which makes it quite usable. 11:11:56 PM

I've fixed a couple of bugs in the utility for generating Corman Lisp COM wrappers from type libraries. It is now at version 1.3. The first bug was using the wrong bit for testing if an interface was a dual interface. The second was caused by a bug in com-type-libs.lisp that ships with Corman Lisp. The latter bug is the ELEMDESC structure being the wrong size. I've included an updated com-type-libs.lisp file that can be used to replace the one in the Corman Lisp 'Modules' directory until Roger Corman provides a fix himself. 4:42:34 PM