Some folks have asked me about the talk I gave at
the workshop, that Simon described so kindly in
his review on perl.com.
I wrote a paper about it. Although it's true I am
a pointy-headed academic, I do occasionally hack
a few lines of code, and I when I've solved a
problem over in the research world whose solution
would be useful to hackers, I try very hard to
write papers that are readable by your generic
hacker.
If you go here
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~shivers/citations.html
you'll see a list of papers I've written. These
are the ones that people in the perl/scripting/lightweight-languages
community might find interesting:
#1 is the lightweight-languages paper on which my
talk last week was based. By the way, the
expect/chat & make replacements I mention in the
future work section of that paper are basically
done. I've three students at Georgia Tech who are
wrapping up the implementation of a nice
recompilation system called sake (pronounced
"sah-kay," like the fish), which I like very much.
A student who worked for me at MIT two years ago
did an expect & chat replacement. (Lots of the
scripts in my/etc directory are now written in
scheme rather than sh, and I wanted something for
my ppp subsystem.)
#2 has an opening flame about a problem in the
open-source community I call "the 80% solution"
problem. The regex notation it describes is now
standard with scsh.
#4 & #6 will be of interest to VM designers.
#8 is, ahh, somewhat more well known for its
non-technical content. But I'm on a new set of
meds now, and doing a lot better, really.
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I wrote a paper about it. Although it's true I am a pointy-headed academic, I do occasionally hack a few lines of code, and I when I've solved a problem over in the research world whose solution would be useful to hackers, I try very hard to write papers that are readable by your generic hacker.
If you go here http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~shivers/citations.html you'll see a list of papers I've written. These are the ones that people in the perl/scripting/lightweight-languages community might find interesting:
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A universal scripting framework
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The SRE regular-expression notation
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Atomic heap transactions and fine-grain interrupts
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Automatic management of operating-system resources
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Continuations and threads: Expressing machine
concurrency directly in advanced languages
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Supporting dynamic languages on the Java virtual machine
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A Scheme shell
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Scsh reference manual
#1 is the lightweight-languages paper on which my talk last week was based. By the way, the expect/chat & make replacements I mention in the future work section of that paper are basically done. I've three students at Georgia Tech who are wrapping up the implementation of a nice recompilation system called sake (pronounced "sah-kay," like the fish), which I like very much. A student who worked for me at MIT two years ago did an expect & chat replacement. (Lots of the scripts in my#2 has an opening flame about a problem in the open-source community I call "the 80% solution" problem. The regex notation it describes is now standard with scsh.
#4 & #6 will be of interest to VM designers.
#8 is, ahh, somewhat more well known for its non-technical content. But I'm on a new set of meds now, and doing a lot better, really.
-Olin