Ikarus Scheme - native-code compiler for R6RS Scheme
Ikarus Scheme was announced on the comp.lang.scheme newsgroup. It's an open source R6RS Scheme system which does incremental native code compilation. more →
Javascript Packrat Parser
I've made some changes to my parser combinator library written in Javascript that I wrote about previously. I was extending the example code from that post to parse more of the ECMAScript 3 grammar to test it out and was hitting performance issues. I ended up modifying the combinator library to be a Packrat style parser. The Parsing Expression Grammar... more →
Kapono International Ukulele Festival in Auckland this weekend
New Zealand's first ukulele festival is being held this weekend in Auckland. kiwiukulele.com has the details. It features international & local artists: more →
Cyclone - A Safe Dialect of C
Robert O'Callahan's recent post about ownership types, stack allocation and abstraction penalties has a comment pointing to the Cyclone programming language. This is an interesting looking language in that it has many of the properties of C which make it popular for system level development: more →
ECMAScript 4 Overview Paper
An overview paper describing the ECMAScript 4 language features was announced on the es4-discuss mailing list: more →