As for implementation Racket and/or Scheme, I'd suggest reading Dybvig's papers [1], particularly his dissertation (which is very readable by a novice) [2]. Also the articles on Larceny [3], including its web page about the compiler [4]. Finally, Casey Klein (and others) have a paper that describes the adaptions made to one of the models in Dybvig's dissertation (at least that's the way I read it) to derive the VM underneath Racket [5].
I'd say that each of those three strands are mostly independent and you could start down any of them. Jay 1. http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs.html 2. http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs/3imp.pdf 3. http://www.larcenists.org/research.html 4. http://www.larcenists.org/twobit.html 5. http://plt.eecs.northwestern.edu/racket-machine/ On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 8:32 AM, curtis wolterding <curtiswolterd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Racketeers, > > A friend and I recently finished working through this book together, The > Elements of Computing Systems - http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/, where we built > a computer (virtually) from the ground up: from NAND gates, to a (barely) > working compiler and a very basic OS. After finishing all of the projects, > and after having a month or so now to recover from the stress and pure > insanity, I can't stop thinking about how fun it would be to learn about the > implementation of Scheme, or, more specifically, Racket! Does anyone know > where I could find a good discussion or explanation of the inner workings of > either of these languages? > > I apologize if this is an off-topic question for the mailing list. > > Also, I want to sincerely thank the Racket Devs for creating such a well > documented, and user-friendly project. Other than completing about half of > HTDP (I'm planning on finishing the rest this summer!), and a very > introductory C++ class many years ago in college, the Elements book was > really my first introduction to computing. Having coded the assembler, VM, > and compiler for the book in Racket, I have basically lived on the Racket > docs pages for the last three quarters of a year. It's been an amazing > journey, and I honestly could not have completed everything had Racket not > come with such excellent documentation, such an easy to use IDE, or had it > not been such a joy to code in. On behalf of a true beginner, thank you. > > Cheers, > > Curtis Wolterding > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
