Stefan Plantikow

From SlateWiki

Like Paul Dufresne, I am always in search of the perfect programming language. On that quest I have been studying many languages concentrating on: expressivenes, simplicity and self-reflectivity. I am especially interested in the psycological fitness of language constructs for concisely and naturally describing the programmer's intent (you could call this "programming language usability"). In this regard, prototype OO-Systems are much more "usable" than class-based ones.

I think that lisp and smalltalk are extreme points of the functional and the object-oriented programming language family and thus any attemp at merging the two (which I feel is one of the things slate does) must lead to a "next-level"-language.

As programming languages are just an albeit incredible powerful way of processing information I am also interested in combining ad-hoc networking with modern hypertext-systems (Wiki-Style).

For slate, I'd like to work on implementing threads, which hopefully would allow me to write a HTTP-Server for a slate-based Wiki some day.

Besides that, I am hacking java/c-based distributed applications for fun and money, play Go, and study to get my c.s. degree.