Abstract Heresies

Multiple Return Value Implementation in CLRHack The CLRHack compiler implements Multiple Return Values (MRV) by extending the single-val...

Tail-Call Handling in CLRHack I decided to make proper tail recursion a fundamental requirement in CLRHack. This prevents stack overflow...

I was wondering what it would look like if a large language model were part of your programming language. I'm not talking about cal...

Object-oriented languages often come with a “collections” library that provides a variety of data structures for storing collections of ...

Google's golang was designed for mediocre programmers that aren't “capable of understanding a brilliant language”. It omits fea...

The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically fairly young, fresh out of school, probab...

Unlike most languages, Lisp represents its programs as data structures. A Lisp program is a set of nested lists. We can look at a Lisp...

If I were in charge of Python development, here are a few things I would do: Add (optional) tail recursion. This would make it easier to...

The reason I want tail recursion is not to write loops (I can do that with a while loop), but to write in continuation passing style if ...

In some languages, like Lisp and OCaml, every language construct is an expression that returns a value. Other languages, like Java or P...

Many years ago I was under the delusion that if Lisp were more “normal looking” it would be adopted more readily. I thought that maybe ...

Follow me along this garden path (based on true events). We have a nifty program and we want it to be flexible, so it has a config file....