Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
A neat article that appeared on reddit just recently: Writing a Lisp Interpreter in Haskell. It's interesting to compare the approach to my recent post on writing interpreters in Factor and my parser combinator article for the s-expression parser. Apart from the fact that Haskell is a typed language, the approaches are quite similar. No surprise there since I based... more →
Writing compilers and interpreters in Factor is quite easy. By writing the grammar using parser combinators, and having those combinators produce an abstract syntax tree (AST), it's easy to write a simple compiler or interpreter for the tree. I've already covered writing simple parser combinators so I'll concentrate on processing the AST for a simple language in this post. A... more →
Neil Mix has made Beta 1 of Narrative Javascript available. This release includes an official threading API with support for futures. I'll be revisiting my previous examples of using threading and futures with Narrative Javascript to move things over to this new API. more →
Slava has released Factor 0.85. There are lots of great additions and improvements. more →
Flapjax is a very interesting looking client side browser framework. It's a superset of Javascript that provides Functional Reactive Programming to the client side browser. From the Flapjax website: more →