What is "Open Language"?

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2015-10-25 08:35, Richmond wrote:
>> Because Open Language was his idea, presented at a conference some 
>> years ago. I didn't stop to think that not everyone knows that.
>> 
> 
> Well, at least one person didn't :/

Hah - I had actually forgotten that Open Language had been presented in 
an NDA session at a conference (the year before the KickStarter campaign 
if I remember correctly - 2012).

> My crit. (which is my usual crit. about the Kickstarter) was aimed at
> a feeling that
> RunRev were so enthusiastic about the Kickstarter they merrily 'said'
> all sorts of things,
> that later, in "the cool light of reason" may have been seen to be a
> bit unwise, or
> should have been stated in more measured terms.

There is a prototype version of the Open Language parser which I 
developed - it is currently sitting on my hard-drive. It was 
demonstrated in the NDA session - so we have definitely not been 
spouting 'hot air'.

There are various reasons why it has not appeared yet - the primary one 
being that it has taken us a lot longer to do the work on the engine so 
that the engine can support it than we originally projected.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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