Tasty » Adam Sampson's research bookmarks

Niklaus Wirth, "Compiler Construction" edit / delete

Wirth's book on writing single-pass compilers. Not ground-breaking, but it's a good introduction to the subject.

to compiler parsing research ... on 01 October 2006

Arduino - HomePage edit / delete

Cheap AVR-based dev boards. I'd like one. Probably a bit small (8K) to fit the Transterpreter in, but might be an interesting system to experiment with C translation upon...

to avr electronics microcontroller research ... on 27 September 2006

Stackless.com - About Stackless edit / delete

Variant of Python with lightweight threads. (Unfortunately, it doesn't build with GCC 4.1.)

to concurrency python research software ... on 24 September 2006

Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68 edit / delete

Possibly the first mainstream language to feature concurrency?

to concurrency design language research retrocomputing ... on 21 September 2006

Squirrel edit / delete

Scripting language with (basic) concurrency features.

to concurrency design language research scripting ... on 21 September 2006

The Universe of Discourse : Design patterns of 1972 edit / delete

MJD writing about how design patterns can inform language features -- a nice summary of the point.

to design language patterns research ... on 11 September 2006

Common Message Runtime edit / delete

Suggesting POP as a means of getting inter-language support. The library he suggests (for inter-process lightweight concurrency and communication with shared memory) would be a worthwhile project to implement.

to ipc language parallelism research ... on 09 September 2006

The Silver Bullet edit / delete

Found this via metafilter pointing and laughing, but it sounds like the author's trying to reinvent process orientation...

to amusements concurrency research software ... on 08 September 2006

Haskell - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks edit / delete

Quite a good Haskell tutorial.

to functional haskell programming research ... on 06 September 2006

Cibyl - SpelWiki edit / delete

Utterly bizarre cool idea: a translator from MIPS binaries to Java bytecode, so that you can compile C to the JVM using GCC.

to bytecode compiler java research translation ... on 02 September 2006