Andy Wingo, a JavaScript and Guile Scheme blogger writes this insightful comment There is very little in the way of correct, current, and universal folk wisdom as to how to implement a programming language. Compiler hackers are priests of their languages, yes, but their temples are in reality more or less isolated cults, in which …
Monthly Archives: August 2012
In a name
Just registered close-paren.com. Got a project in mind for it, but it just redirects here for now. My first choice was free-variable.com, but I saw that free-variable.org was already claimed by another good programmer. Interestingly, he too wanted a different domain originally, strictly-positive.org. Gotta have back up plans. 🙂 )))
Simple explanation of *delimited* continuations
Just last month, I was talking about how raise/catch could interact across C callouts, and inadvertently described reset, without realizing it at the time.