Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
Cliff Biffle announced on the Parallax Forums the release of Propeller Forth. This is an interactive Forth system for the Parallax Propeller Chip. The Propeller is a multi core chip. It has 8 32-bit chips processor on the one chip. Propeller Forth has multitasking words to take advantage of this parallelism. more →
I was asked on IRC how to use parser combinators to write a simple translator from s-expressions to Factor quotations. The translation was quite simple - here are some examples of how it was supposed to work: (set a 10) => [ "set" "a" 10 ] (set square (lambda (n) (* n n))) => [ "set" "square" [ "lambda" [... more →
The Ruby programming language has been ported by Symbian to run on cellphones running the Series 60 interface. more →
Andrew Lentvorski has ported Gambit Scheme to run on the Nintendo DS. It seems to include access to the DS wireless functionality to run a REPL over a socket. more →
Slava has released version 0.86 of Factor. In other Factor news, Doug Coleman has started a blog with a focus on Factor programming and tutorials. more →