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Which are used by Bone Lisp: It uses explicit regions instead of garbage collection. Explicit regions are both very simple and very fast, but how far can one

by Kristine1975 10y ago

Which are used by Bone Lisp: It uses explicit regions instead of garbage collection. Explicit regions are both very simple and very fast, but how far can one get with them? I want to find out, so I am developing this interpreter. So we've come full circle.

pjmlp 10y ago
To come full circle we would need people to accept the great research done at Burroughs, DEC/Olivetti, Royal Navi, Xerox PARC, Genera, ETHZ, MSR... in what concerns safe systems programming.
- fsloth 10y ago
  But are there any non-paywalled digital accesspoints to this?
  - pjmlp 10y ago
    Lots of them. All research of Interlisp-D, Smalltalk and Mesa/Cedar at Xerox PARC: https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xerox https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xerox Stéphane Ducasse also maintains the original Smalltalk manuals on his legacy books: http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html Oberon at ETHZ: http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/books.html http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/books.html If you want to see how the latest incarnation of Oberon used to look like: http://www.progtools.org/article.php?name=oberon&section=compilers&type=tutorial http://www.progtools.org/article.php?name=oberon&section=com... For Modula-3 it is a bit harder, because of DEC/Olivetti being acquired by Compaq, which was then acquired by HP. So lots of sites are full with broken links. So the older books are a better source than the Internet. But still you can get some info here: http://www.modula3.org/ http://www.modula3.org/ http://ftp.labs.hp.com/ftp/pub/dec/SRC/ http://ftp.labs.hp.com/ftp/pub/dec/SRC/ http://www-spin.cs.washington.edu/ http://www-spin.cs.washington.edu/ Burroughs overview: http://www.smecc.org/The%20Architecture%20%20of%20the%20Burroughs%20B-5000.htm http://www.smecc.org/The%20Architecture%20%20of%20the%20Burr... It lives on as Unisys MCP mainframes. There are some more informations when searching for it. Algol-68RS used at Royal Navy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68RS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68RS This is just a small taste. If one cares about history of computing there are lots of other resources scattered around the web and libraries.
    - fsloth 10y ago
      Cool, thanks!

pjmlp 10y ago

To come full circle we would need people to accept the great research done at Burroughs, DEC/Olivetti, Royal Navi, Xerox PARC, Genera, ETHZ, MSR... in what concerns safe systems programming.

fsloth 10y ago
But are there any non-paywalled digital accesspoints to this?
- pjmlp 10y ago
  Lots of them. All research of Interlisp-D, Smalltalk and Mesa/Cedar at Xerox PARC: https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xerox https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xerox Stéphane Ducasse also maintains the original Smalltalk manuals on his legacy books: http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html Oberon at ETHZ: http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/books.html http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/books.html If you want to see how the latest incarnation of Oberon used to look like: http://www.progtools.org/article.php?name=oberon&section=compilers&type=tutorial http://www.progtools.org/article.php?name=oberon&section=com... For Modula-3 it is a bit harder, because of DEC/Olivetti being acquired by Compaq, which was then acquired by HP. So lots of sites are full with broken links. So the older books are a better source than the Internet. But still you can get some info here: http://www.modula3.org/ http://www.modula3.org/ http://ftp.labs.hp.com/ftp/pub/dec/SRC/ http://ftp.labs.hp.com/ftp/pub/dec/SRC/ http://www-spin.cs.washington.edu/ http://www-spin.cs.washington.edu/ Burroughs overview: http://www.smecc.org/The%20Architecture%20%20of%20the%20Burroughs%20B-5000.htm http://www.smecc.org/The%20Architecture%20%20of%20the%20Burr... It lives on as Unisys MCP mainframes. There are some more informations when searching for it. Algol-68RS used at Royal Navy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68RS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68RS This is just a small taste. If one cares about history of computing there are lots of other resources scattered around the web and libraries.
  - fsloth 10y ago
    Cool, thanks!