Praising Kernel (The Axis of Eval)

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Post by Autre » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 1:38 PM UTC

Praising Kernel (The Axis of Eval)
axisofeval.blogspot.com

Re: Praising Kernel (The Axis of Eval)

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Post by Autre » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 1:53 PM UTC

Also: have a look at https://github.com/manuel/schampignon (an interpreter for a Kernel-like language)

Re: Praising Kernel (The Axis of Eval)

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Post by losethos » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 2:16 PM UTC

You're doing this in plain view of God? Seriously, dude, go hide.

Re: Praising Kernel (The Axis of Eval)

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Post by pnathan » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 3:07 PM UTC

Kernel the language can be found here: http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html

Where the author mentions that it is related to his doctoral dissertation, Fexprs as the basis of Lisp function application; or, $vau: the ultimate abstraction[1].

[1] http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/Available/etd-090110-124904/

Re: Praising Kernel (The Axis of Eval)

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Post by bgurupra » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 3:29 PM UTC

Unrelated to the content of the article but by the UI - is it just me or does have pitch black background with white text is a bad design for the eye?

Re: Praising Kernel (The Axis of Eval)

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Post by copper » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 4:06 PM UTC

Not that it makes a difference, but I believe R6RS provide first-class environments, too: http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs-lib/r6rs-lib-Z-H-17.html

Edit: After looking through the Racket docs, I believe I was referring to were its namespaces.

Re: Praising Kernel (The Axis of Eval)

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Post by lisper » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 4:52 PM UTC

bgurupra wrote: post #5

Unrelated to the content of the article but by the UI - is it just me or does have pitch black background with white text is a bad design for the eye?

It's not just you. White text on a black background is HORRIBLE design. That's why my Readability bookmarklet sees a lot of use.

Re: Praising Kernel (The Axis of Eval)

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Post by Autre » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 6:26 PM UTC

bgurupra wrote: post #5

Unrelated to the content of the article but by the UI - is it just me or does have pitch black background with white text is a bad design for the eye?

Readability is just one click away http://www.readability.com/

Re: Praising Kernel (The Axis of Eval)

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Post by tsewlliw » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 7:36 PM UTC

I've read about Kernel before, but this time I wondered if $vau is in any way related to 0 from Jot (the turing tarpit best apparently best used as a Goedel numbering).

Maybe I should just write jshutt...

Re: Praising Kernel (The Axis of Eval)

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Post by pwpwp » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 7:39 PM UTC

tsewlliw wrote: post #9

I've read about Kernel before, but this time I wondered if $vau is in any way related to 0 from Jot (the turing tarpit best apparently best used as a Goedel numbering). Maybe I should just write jshutt...

there are certain similarities to other very-low-operator-count languages - the big difference is that with Kernel's fexprs, you can go from this handful of operators to a fully-featured language more expressive than Scheme, and do so with style. See the R-1RK - it builds up the whole language, sequentially, from the built-ins:

ftp://ftp.cs.wpi.edu/pub/techreports/pdf/05-07.pdf