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February 26, 2015

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (LFE Edition)

Filed under: Computer Science,CS Lectures,Erlang,LFE Lisp Flavored Erlang — Patrick Durusau @ 7:40 pm

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (LFE Edition)

From the webpage:

This Gitbook (available here) is a work in progress, converting the MIT classic Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs to Lisp Flavored Erlang. We are forever indebted to Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, and Julie Sussman for their labor of love and intelligence. Needless to say, our gratitude also extends to the MIT press for their generosity in licensing this work as Creative Commons.

Contributing

This is a huge project, and we can use your help! Got an idea? Found a bug? Let us know!.

Writing, or re-writing if you are transposing a CS classic into another language, is far harder than most people imagine. Probably even more difficult than the original because your range of creativity is bound by the organization and themes of the underlying text.

I may have some cycles to donate to proof reading. Anyone else?

May 24, 2014

Lisp Flavored Erlang

Filed under: Erlang,LFE Lisp Flavored Erlang,Lisp — Patrick Durusau @ 4:17 pm

Lisp Flavored Erlang These are your father’s parentheses Elegant weapons, for a more …civilized age1.

From the homepage:

Origins

LFE has many origins, depending upon whether you’re looking at Lisp (and here), Erlang, or LFE-proper. The LFE community of contributors embraces all of these and more.

From the original release message:

I have finally released LFE, Lisp Flavoured Erlang, which is a lisp syntax front-end to the Erlang compiler. Code produced with it is compatible with “normal” Erlang code. The is an LFE-mode for Emacs and the lfe-mode.el file is include in the distribution… (Robert Virding)

I haven’t looked up the numbers but I am sure that LFE is in the terminology of academia, one of the less often taught languages. However, it sounds deeply interesting as we all march towards scalable concurrent processing.

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