After the previous successful experiments, this will for the new direction. I'll plot down the plan first, then detail it and then reason about why i got here.
As at least the direction will be new to me i'll call this a research plan. Some elements will be known, but bringing it all together i think is new, as i . . . .Read whole post
The previous post on partial evaluation was for too vague for my liking, so i will try to write some mathy looking stuff, in an effort to bring more clarity into the approach that is swirling around.
Let me try and get some symbols out and detail these thoughts. Since the original paper of Futurama talks vaguely ab . . . .Read whole post
Work on kide-som is is at an end. "All" tests green. And lessons learned.
Kide-som , ie a "version" of kide that compiles SOM, works by transpiling SOM (a stripped down Smalltalk) to go.
This works by transpiling methods to functions, having a general object, using go anonymous functions as bl . . . .Read whole post
This time, also to save time, i decided on Transpiling, not compiling. I . . . .Read whole post
I am in rest mode, watched another of Maxime video and it got me in a pensive mood. So i want to try to get the learned lesson down to the bare minimum. And also seperate the important from the nice.
The overwhelingly most import thing i learned is that objects . . . .Read whole post
I have been struggling with the linker. I sort of had a working hack, but in some upgrade it broke, and i couldn't fix it. I lack motivation for the deep c dive. So i will pivot and try another way. And simplify the memory management at the same time.
When dealing with assembler, dealing with code at the inst . . . .Read whole post
It seems i am not done, but while resting i did have some new inspiration, call it clarity. For one, ruby is too big, so i will try to prove the point with som. And the second one come from the quaject realisation, quajects are the way forward.
Ruby started out as quite a reasonable little language, but, . . . .Read whole post
