Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
This post is aimed mainly at Factor developers who need to make their repository accessible to Slava to retrieve patches. Factor has recently moved to using git as the version control system. To set up a repository on a server you should clone the existing Factor repository using the '--bare' option: git clone --bare http://www.factorcode.org/git/factor.git factor.git more →
Recently on Lambda the Ultimate there was an announcement about the Vodka programming language. The language is a masters thesis project by Tiark Rompf and has some interesting ideas. It is designed to be a concurrency oriented language, based on the ideas of Join Calculus and Petri Nets. It has multimethod dispatch (like CLOS, Dylan and Nice), generators and many... more →
Tony Garnock-Jones has got Erlang running on the OpenMoko phone: more →
Following on from my Channels implementation, I've now added 'Remote Channels'. These are distributed channels that allow you to access channels in separate Factor instances, even on different machines on the network. It's based on my Distributed Concurrency work. A channel can be made accessible by remote Factor nodes using the 'publish' word. Given a channel this will return a... more →
Steve Dekorte has some things he dislikes about git. This post is how I work around these issues in my own git repositories. Git has a heuristic for detecting binary files. You can force other file types to be binary by adding a .gitattributes file to your repository. This file contains a list of glob patterns, followed by attributes to... more →