Haskell Filesystem
Isaac Jones writes about the release of Hafs, a Linux filesystem written in Haskell. more →
ICFP Programming Contest 2006
Information on the ICFP Programming contest for 2006 are up. It's being held on July 21-24, 2006 and run by Carnegie Mellon University. more →
Factor and The Computer Language Shootout
I implemented one of the Computer Language Shootout benchmarks in Factor to see how it would compare. I wanted to get a gauge of the comparative performance of compiled Factor as well as seeing how the Factor implementations of the algorithms looked. I started with the recursion benchmark. A darcs repository containing the Factor code and the C code for... more →
Generators in Common Lisp
Matthew Swank posted an example of generators using Common Lisp in comp.lang.lisp. His implementation contains a monadic implementation of continuations and call/cc which is quite nice, and the resulting thread has a dicussion on the some implementation variations. A simple example of using the call/cc implementation from later in the thread: ;; Scheme version (call/cc (lambda (k) (k 42))) more →
Patent on continuation based web servers
It looks like Paul Graham has a patent on continuation based web servers: Patent 6,205,469. more →