Transmuter Programming Language

Transmuter Programming Language (via PLNews):

The Transmuter Programming Language, or Trans for short, is a new dynamic programming language that has been under careful design and development for several years, and is currently in an initial testing phase. Trans is a biologically inspired language, providing a framework for experimenting with naturally evolving systems of objects over the net, and for exploring new ideas about recombinant software, code morphing, and evolutionary programming in general. The Trans model is an ambitious attempt to fuse modern programming language paradigms with novel evolutionary programming techniques. It is a modern object-oriented dynamic language with a built-in capacity for evolutionary transformation.

The code looks clean, and the source code to Trans is public domain (that's real freedom in software). Plus, it's got a prototype-OO system, and I love prototype OO. I can't comment on the "evolutionary" features as yet, but the threading system looks super easy (though it's not yet documented enough to use).

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Users!

It's so great to be producing software that goes to actual users. Rather than merely producing demo after fraudulent demo of code that will likely never see the light of day in a working system used by actual people (a situation that often arises in the government space, where contractors continue to get money through pork contracts despite never producing anything of actual value), I get to write code for a company that has real products/services (and is subject to the free market), and my code will have an impact on the company's bottom line. It feels good!

Update: Heh, as John Gruber writes: "real software ships". That's going in my quotes.

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