2009/9/7 John Cowan <[email protected]>: > David Rush scripsit: > >> I knew this was going to come up. Jeff has passed on the maintenance of >> Stalin to another group now so looking to him for the latest releases >> will give you wrong data. And it is most certainly not a dead-end, my >> own (currently NDA'd) research efforts are heavily based on its ideas. > > I also already conceded that it was an important predecessor of many > efforts. Where is this new group to be found, with its new releases?
I have emails with the details if I want to find them. I haven't personally had a problem that required Stalin's efficiency in a couple of years, so I haven't bothered to follow-up. >> in industry is that no amount of documentation can make up for >> poor programming style, whereas perspicuous code needs very little >> documentation in the first place. > > Granted. But code can't explain *why*. And that's what separates the men from the boys. Or perhaps the hackers from the wannabes, if we wish to remain gender neutral :) At my age, I am trying to teach wannabees to be hackers. Perhaps it is like trying to play the octaventral heebiephone :) >> I did that, and included SRFI-9 into the bargain as well so that I >> could get Stalin's type optimizations to work well. > > Excellent! When will this be released, or if released, where is it? It's been out there for years. http://mangler.sourceforge.net has an old version (but rather newer than the last diary entry). Since no-one ever really used it but me, I have since moved the project onto my own private git repo. It has suffered the fate of all working programs - it accumulates just a couple of patches a year, in a very focussed fashion around my immediate needs. I highly doubt that anyone could bootstrap my current code it into anything other than Gambit or Larceny these days as I really haven't found any desire to support/use any other Scheme implementations in a long time. It should still generate nice code for Stalin though, since that rapidly became the main point of the project when I was working on it. david rush -- GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
