This time, no tail-call optimization or first-class continuations, just plain old pedestrian control flow: LOOP, CATCH, THROW, UNWIND-PROTECT (unexpectedly, this didn't make the interpreter much smaller than the one with TCO and continuations.)
Probably the only interesting thing in there is that everything is fully OOP: EVAL is a message, as is COMBINE, as is MATCH - which means every object can potentially control its own evaluation, act as a combiner, and be used as a left-hand-side pattern in matching.
Again: Kernel is nice and elegant, but the interpretetive overhead of fexprs is killer [Edit: haven't measured it, and see this]. Maybe it doesn't matter for what I want to do: script web GUIs.
Previously: The Kernel Underground.
2 comments:
I like what you are doing with kernel, and I would give a useful comment, if I was able.
but I would like to hear your thoughts on julia, the new language announced today, on hn, reddit, ltu. it's at julialang.org
I didn't realize you were the one to submit to ltu.
Damn.
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