Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
I've made some changes to the parser combinator library I wrote for Factor. The changes were to make the usage of the library to be more consistent with good Factor style. The first change was to ensure that items on the stack are accessable in an intuitive manner from within the quotations passed to breset and bshift. When writing combinators... more →
DabbleDB gets a mention again on TechCrunch along with a lot of positive comments. more →
If you think that we've made great progress in computer systems over the last ten years, take a look at Brad Neuberg's screencast of the Augment system developed in the 60's. Augment is the first system developed with groupware, email, outlining and interaction with the computer. Many of the 'new' features we see today are evident in the Augment system.... more →
I've written some partial continuation support and put it in the Factor contrib directory. It implements bshift and breset as outlined by Oleg's post on comp.lang.scheme. It's in contrib/partial-continuations.factor and can be pulled from my repository until it makes it to the official Factor repository: darcs pull http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/repos/factor more →
Steve Dekorte has made the garbage collector used in Io a seperate library and released as open source. It's available at the libgarbagecollector page. more →