200K of stringstream

stringstream needs iostream, which needs ostream which needs...

Simply change uses of stringstream (and iostream) to snprintf() to shave 200K off your app. Impulse, trying to be a minimalist language, can't afford this bloat.

gcc version 3.4.4

Impulse: C++

One of the goals of Impulse is to make bindings and glue code easy to write. Taking advantage of type constructors and operator overloading in C++, you can create a dynamic "language" that's fairly small:

val n = val(5) (pow_, 2);

range(1, 5) lambda (each_,
  cout << args[0] << endl;
)

The first line above without sugar would be:

val a = { 2 }, Args args(&a[0], &a[1]);
val n = val(5).perform(_pow_, args);

Eeek! The second? well... let's not go there :) Actually, it's not bad - just 1 nested class macro.

Impulse and predicate dispatching

With a few days off from work, I had some time to renew my interest in predicate dispatching. Impulse is a language I've been toying with for a few years - here are a few more example (sorry, no runtime available :)

Impulse 2: Language Examples

Forth as a Haskell DSL

Forth as a Haskell DSL

Forth supports function composition by nature. It's interesting how many things they have in common, even though the languages are very different.

Forth and Haskell dualities

Finally

PolyD - A flexible dispatching framework in Java

http://www.cunei.com/polyd/

The Mindscape of Alan Moore

Video: The Mindscape of Alan Moore
from Steve Dekorte's blog