cinde...@hushmail.com writes: [...] > I'm a big fan of Alan Kay, and one thing he always made clear is that > there should be no separation between the language and the operating > system. I've found that many of the problems which plague modern OSes > are the same which plague C. Which is why a system which sits on top > of Scheme, one of the most powerful programming paradigms we have, > is so appealing. > Since you mentioned you see analogy between language and OS (they face similar problems), I think you will find this[0] interesting. It discusses how delimted continuations are often used in OS without explicit mentioning it.
Also, this reminds me of the joke: Emacs is an operating system > More concretely, I can be of the most help with: > - Texlive and dealing with pdf stuff (cairo, etc) > - Emacs > - Networking > But realy I'll try to help wherever it's needed, because this project > should be a reality. [0]: http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/zipper.html#context-OS
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