Re: [fonc] Kernel Maru

2012-04-11 Thread Monty Zukowski
of the Dijkstra display technique for quick access to the static nesting of contexts used by Algol (and later by Scheme). Cheers, Alan From: Monty Zukowski mo...@codetransform.com To: Fundamentals of New Computing fonc@vpri.org Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 9:20 PM

Re: [fonc] Kernel Maru

2012-04-10 Thread Monty Zukowski
, Monty Zukowski mo...@codetransform.com wrote: If anyone finds an electronic copy of Fisher's thesis I'd love to know about it.  My searches have been fruitless. The title is not the same, but maybe these are variants of the same paper? http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100550987coll

Re: [fonc] Kernel Maru

2012-04-10 Thread Monty Zukowski
Thank you everyone for the great references. I've got some homework to do now... Monty On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Ian Piumarta piuma...@speakeasy.net wrote: Extending Alan's comments... A small, well explained, and easily understandable example of an iterative implementation of a

Re: [fonc] The Language Barrier

2011-08-19 Thread Monty Zukowski
Have you seen Causeway? Sounds like it might be a start toward what you desire. http://www.erights.org/elang/tools/causeway/ Causeway is an open source postmortem distributed debugger for examining the behavior of distributed programs built as communicating event loops. Its message-oriented

Re: [fonc] Extending object oriented programming in Smalltalk

2011-08-18 Thread Monty Zukowski
The Little Lisper is one of my favorite computer books. I think it teaches the idea of Lisp, though without expounding on it. Monty On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:33 AM, BGB cr88...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/17/2011 6:41 PM, Alan Kay wrote: Take a look at Landin's papers and especially ISWIM (The

Re: [fonc] misc: code security model

2011-08-11 Thread Monty Zukowski
A huge amount of work has been done in this area in the capability security world. See for instance the reference to Mark Miller's thesis in the footnotes of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-capability_model A short summary of capability security is that checking permissions is error prone.

Re: [fonc] Reverse OMeta and Emulation

2010-06-22 Thread Monty Zukowski
GNU C was explicitly designed to make its intermediate representation hard to work with. LLVM is a more practical choice. Monty On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Gerry J geral...@tpg.com.au wrote: You may find the concept of semantic slicing relevant:

Re: [fonc] Specification of Word Wrap and a Text Editor

2010-05-20 Thread Monty Zukowski
Lout ( http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/lout/index.php?title=Main_Page ) has a very interesting design for text layout. It is in fact a DSL for page layout, and a quirky but powerful one at that. Even so he has a good discussion of handling regions of text and larger structures such as

[fonc] crypto metalanguage

2010-05-18 Thread Monty Zukowski
I wanted to bring to your attention Ben Laurie's Stupid: A Metalanguage For Cryptography. Despite the name it actually is helpful for abstracting the design of cryptographic algorithms. http://www.links.org/?p=864 Monty ___ fonc mailing list