Shen Language Port for Wasp Lisp
This post intersects two of my favourite lispy languages. Shen is a functional programming language with a number of interesting features. These include: more →
Exploring 3-Move - A LambdaMOO inspired environment
I was a fan of MUDs from my earliest introduction to computers. I remember writing to Richard Bartle when I was young asking about the possiblity of accessing MUD1 from New Zealand after having read about it in a magazine. The reply was very positive but unfortunately the cost of 300 baud modem access at international phone rates was prohibitive.... more →
Introduction to the Freenet API
Freenet is an anonymous, secure, distributed datastore. I've written about using Freenet before, including using it as the backend for static websites. In this post I'll demonstrate how to use the Freenet API to push data into the Freenet network and retrieve data from it. Unfortunately the freenet protocol documentation is in a state of flux as it moves from... more →
Relational Programming in Mozart/Oz
A video I watched recently on logic programming, A Vision for Relational Programming in miniKanren, by William Byrd gives some interesting examples of relational programming using miniKanren. more →
Borrowing Internal Pointers in ATS
Recently Robert O'Callahan wrote a post on what Rust can do that other languages can't. It involves getting a pointer to an internal field of a stack allocated object and having the type system ensure that the lifetime of that pointer doesn't outlive the owning object. As soon as I saw this I thought "Aha, ATS can do that!" but... more →