Compiling with Continuations

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matheusmoreira ◴[20 Sep 25 08:51 UTC] No.45311617[source]▶

> Doing a search for source code on Github reveals basically nothing. No blog posts. No source code repositories. Nothing.

If nobody ever implemented it in C, it's questionable whether it ever happened at all.

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1. enum ◴[20 Sep 25 10:17 UTC] No.45312008[source]▶

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I learned a lot from implementing this book. Compiler was in OCaml. Runtime was in C (used as a glorified assembly).

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2. matheusmoreira ◴[20 Sep 25 12:19 UTC] No.45312710[source]▶

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> Compiler was in OCaml

Not exactly a common language...

I don't have a math or computer science background so the more academic publications are almost always quite unreadable to me. I learn a lot by exploring the source code of existing virtual machines instead, and most are written in systems languages.

Sometimes much smarter people than I randomly decide to write articles that democratize access to very complex areas of programming language development. Examples:

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-ga...

https://www.wingolog.org/archives/2010/02/26/guile-and-delim...

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3. StopDisinfo910 ◴[20 Sep 25 13:08 UTC] No.45313073[source]▶

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It’s an extremely common language to write compilers in. The original Rust compiler was written in it for exemple.

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