fauxjsp VS Simula

https://github.com/ggeorgovassilis/linuxscripts

A JSP implementation (with tag files!) based on an interpreter instead of a compiler https://github.com/ggeorgovassilis/fauxjsp

A Super Star Strek re-implementation https://github.com/ggeorgovassilis/superstartrek

A library that maps Java interfaces on REST services https://github.com/ggeorgovassilis/spring-rest-invoker

Mainly because I needed/wanted/could and there wasn't already something around that did the job.

Ah, the "hall of shame" HN thead I have been waiting for! Too many to recount here, but the one I probably sunk in most time was fauxjsp [1], a dev-friendly reimplementation of java server pages. I don't regret spending time on the project because it was fun, it was time I couldn't/wouldn't have spent on anyting better and I learned a bit about software architecture.

And you?

[1] https://github.com/ggeorgovassilis/fauxjsp

- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk/ Parser, code model, interpreter and navigable browser for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 v2 sources and virtual image file

- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Som/ Parser, code model, navigable browser and VM for the SOM Smalltalk dialect

- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Simula A Simula 67 parser written in C++ and Qt

> do you regret those endeavours?

No, not in any way; the projects were very entertaining and gave me interesting insights.

The meta object concept of Python (both the 2 and 3 version) is rather different than the one of Smalltalk-80. Actually Smalltalk-76 and 80 have more in common with Simula (67) than the first Smalltalk (72) version. I implemented both Simula 67 and Smalltalk-80 (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk/ and https://github.com/rochus-keller/Simula/). Smalltalk implemented a lot of great ideas, but its influence on other languages (such as Python, Java, C++, etc.) is generally overestimated.