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Archive for 2 April 2009

April fool: area man releases world’s slowest Scheme interpreter

In Functional, Heist, Lisp, Metaprogramming, Ruby on 2 April 2009 with no comments

With apologies to the ever-entertaining Onion, I’m announcing the 0.2.0 release of Heist, henceforth to be known as “the one with the lists”. To recap, Heist is a Scheme interpreter I’m writing in Ruby in order to teach myself a few things about how languages work while I read Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs [...]