Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
A datatype in ATS is similar to types defined in languages like ML and Haskell. They are objects allocated in the heap controlled by the garbage collector. The programmer does not need to explicitly free the memory or manage the lifetime of the object. A dataviewtype is similar to a datatype in that it is an object allocated on the... more →
I'm back to using the ATS programming language after a bit of a break. My first thought upon getting back into the language is how easy it is to forget how to write in a language you don't use often. It's starting to come back to me though. For my current task I needed to read string data from a... more →
The Mozilla repository for Firefox development, mozilla-central, is a mercurial repository. I prefer using git for version control so I usually do my Firefox development using a git mirror of the mozilla-central repository. To convert the repository into git I used hg-fast-export. This has worked well over the last couple of years. Unfortunately I've noticed that my git mirror and... more →
Ralph Hauwert has been posting on twitter about work he's done on getting WebM decoding to work in Flash by compiling the libvpx source code using Adobe's Alchemy technology. Alchemy is a research project that allows compilation of C and C++ libraries into code that runs on the ActionScript virtual machine used by Flash. Ralph originally tweeted: more →
Scott Dunlop, The author of Wasp Lisp, has moved development from its bzr based launchpad location to WaspVM on github. Hopefully this will encourage more interest in the implementation with people forking and working on it. For an overview of Wasp Lisp you can read a couple of my previous posts on it: more →