I am currently reading the third chapter of Lisp in Small Pieces. It is really a wonderful book. By teaching how to implement Lisp, it teaches a lot about using the language too. Moreover, reading it sometimes I feel the urge that almost every Schemer has at one time or another felt: The urge to [...]
Archive of entries posted on May 2008
Concurrent Scheme
While I wait for my 1-hour mobile phone software compilation to finish I decided to drop a quick post about something that has been on my mind lately. In his nice PhD thesis (that I had to read five times to finally understand it), Dybvig (the implementor of Chez Scheme) shows a compiler that rewards [...]