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Heron Language Specification

I have posted the first draft of the Heron language specification at http://www.heron-language.com/spec.html. It covers most of the Heron language, but is still sketchy in places and somewhat informal. I have left out the really gritty details of the lexical grammar. I would appreciate some feedback on the specification and impressions on the language itself if anyone cares to. Thanks in advance!

By cdiggins at 2004-10-22 00:02 | LtU Forum | 5 comments | other blogs | 6761 reads

Dr. Kenneth Iverson Passes Away

Ken Iverson, creator of APL and J, passed away this week.

By shrogers at 2004-10-22 02:13 | LtU Forum | 13 comments | other blogs | 31876 reads

Online Bibliography of Partial Evaluation Research

Online Bibliography of Partial Evaluation Research

The latest addition to Jim Bender's impressive family of online PL-related research libraries, including ReadScheme and its Haskell analog. These are fantastic resources if you haven't yet seen them.

By Dave Herman at 2004-10-22 15:47 | LtU Forum | 8 comments | other blogs | 6827 reads

CADR Lisp Machine emulator

via Planet Lisp
Brad Parker has released an emulator for CADR, the second-generation MIT Lisp Machine. The emulator comes bundled with the operating system and you can run it on a regular Unix machine.

He estimates that it is 90% complete. I can confirm that it does boot up and run ZWEI, the Lisp Machine Emacs. (Note that this is MIT's Lisp Machine and not the fancier Symbolics derivative.)

This is really cool!

By Luke Gorrie at 2004-10-22 22:32 | History | 2 comments | other blogs | 13354 reads