Abstract Heresies

When the garbage collector decides to free a region, it marks the region as being ‘oldspace’. Live objects will be copied out of oldspace in...

Matthew Swank reports that he can run the C# back end of MIT Scheme with mono on os-x PPC32 and linux x86-64. It seems to cold load and ge...

Before I got distracted by the tail recursion brouhaha, I was writing about some Lisp machine esoterica. I want to describe how the LMI Lam...

Is this horse dead, yet? At the beginning of this series I said that my goal was to clear up a few misconceptions about tail recursion: Tai...

I thought I could squeeze the rest in this post, but I think I need one more after this. van Rossum suggests that tail recursion may be di...

Earlier I said that tail recursion allows a program access to a more powerful computation model. I'm referring to Hewitt's Actor mo...

Part III is coming, but I wanted to make an observation. As I've been writing stuff, I've been poring over a lot of code looking fo...