[plt-scheme] [ANN] Heist: a Scheme interpreter in Ruby

[James Coglan]

2009/2/25 Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu>

> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:43 AM, James Coglan <jcoglan at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the
> > clarification; I've seen the terms CPS and trampolining come up in other
> > people's implementations but haven't been able to read enough yet to know
> > exactly what trampolining is. I'm familiar enough with CPS since I write
> a
> > lot of JavaScript (where you have events, async IO, animations that all
> make
> > use of 'continuation' functions as callbacks) but can't immediately see
> how
> > to convert my whole interpreter to that style.
>
> In private email I sent you a reference to a paper that describes
> trampolining in detail and its connection to CPS.  As for seeing an
> interpreter in CPS itself, you might find it worthwhile to peruse the
> relevant chapter of my PL book, PLAI (www.plai.org), or the superior
> EoPL (www.google.com).


Already on my to-do list. Since starting SICP and joining this list my
reading list has grown exponentially!
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