An *(object-oriented) *(programming language) based on _(Smalltalk) syntax, prototype-based object system, and multi-method dispatch, by _(Brian T. Rice) and _(Lee Salzman). The intent is to provide an intermediate porting platform for the _(TUNES Project).

The <a href="http://slate.tunes.org">home page</a> has most of the available documentation. The code is available via CVS.

<p class="comment">Note: The name Slate was originally used to name a "object-oriented <i>and</i> purely functional, Forth/Self/Beta/Lisp hybrid with <i>no syntax</i>", which was intended to be a *(TUNES HLL) (or HLL-) candidate. This project was eventually abandoned. The name was then recycled for the language (by the same authors) currently known as Slate. This current Slate language is <i>not at all</i> intended to be able to function as a HLL for Tunes; it probably doesn't even want to be directly associated with Tunes. In spite of this, it might anyway, when completed, loosely speaking be able to give some a little bit more concrete finger-pointings to some Tunes features than has previously existed, since it aims to be a refinement of the nicest things in the Self/Squeak/Lisp-machine tradition.</p>

<p class="comment"> For those who eventually for some kind of reason would be interested in the "original" Slate language: the information that is available exists scattered in mailing lists archives and tunes channel chat logs from around something of the years 2000-2001</p>