Huh, that page was deleted in Dec 22. "concern was: Old research project. Unable to locate any details. VPRI institute is dead. Been on the cat:nn list since March 2009. No new updates."
Goddamned deletionist activist WP editors tearing down the human knowledge base.
(If you don't know VPRI is (was?) Alan Kay's research org. I think it's a bit notable and important.)
ANYWAY
From the search result (in DDG) snippet I can get the first two sentences of the deleted page:
> "COLA" stands for "Combined Object Lambda Architecture". [1] A COLA is a self-describing language in two parts, an object system which is implemented in terms of objects, and a functional language to describe the computation to perform. [2]
It's a very simple system that gives you the basis for both OOP and Lisp-like semantics. It's fun!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLA_(software_architecture)
Huh, that page was deleted in Dec 22. "concern was: Old research project. Unable to locate any details. VPRI institute is dead. Been on the cat:nn list since March 2009. No new updates."
Goddamned deletionist activist WP editors tearing down the human knowledge base.
(If you don't know VPRI is (was?) Alan Kay's research org. I think it's a bit notable and important.)
ANYWAY
From the search result (in DDG) snippet I can get the first two sentences of the deleted page:
> "COLA" stands for "Combined Object Lambda Architecture". [1] A COLA is a self-describing language in two parts, an object system which is implemented in terms of objects, and a functional language to describe the computation to perform. [2]
It's a very simple system that gives you the basis for both OOP and Lisp-like semantics. It's fun!
You can see it here: https://piumarta.com/software/cola/
Or check out the VPRI reports, etc.:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220819075633/https://www.vpri....
Ironically their website appears to be down at the moment.