Re: [racket-users] compiler books

2020-11-27 Thread 'John Clements' via Racket Users
If you’re specifically interested in 1) Compilers, and 2) Racket, I think it’s hard to do better than Jeremy Siek’s Essentials of Compilation. He comes from the Indiana group, as, indirectly, does just about everything around here, and his approach is very closely related to Dybvig/Chez, inclu

Re: [racket-users] compiler books

2020-11-27 Thread Tim Meehan
Hendrik - sorry for misspelling your name 😱. On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 5:41 PM Tim Meehan wrote: > Thanks for the links, Hendrick and Matt! > The holidays gave me some time to learn about things that I had put on the > back burner all year, so this is great timing. > > > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at

Re: [racket-users] compiler books

2020-11-27 Thread Tim Meehan
Thanks for the links, Hendrick and Matt! The holidays gave me some time to learn about things that I had put on the back burner all year, so this is great timing. On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 2:57 PM Matt Jadud wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 12:40 PM Hendrik Boom > wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 25

Re: [racket-users] compiler books

2020-11-27 Thread Matt Jadud
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 12:40 PM Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:46:21AM -0600, Tim Meehan wrote: > I found a book by Dick Grune et al to be somewhat lighter than the dragon > book. Looking online, I discoered I was thinking of the first edition. I > haven't seen the second edi

[racket-users] compiler books

2020-11-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:46:21AM -0600, Tim Meehan wrote: > Hi George, thanks for the reply! > > I work a bit with hardware, but I'm not terribly good with assembly. I know > enough about hardware to know how hard this must be to get working - but it > does interest me a lot. The more I learn, t

Re: [racket-users] named let ...

2020-11-27 Thread Tim Meehan
Ok - I think I get it: the "unless" can be thought of as inside of an implicit "begin," and isn't in tail position anymore. If I move the "display" statement right before the line with "result" I can watch my results evaporating when the stack is unwinding. Thanks for finding that! On Fri, Nov 27

Re: [racket-users] executables

2020-11-27 Thread Tim Meehan
Hi George, thanks for the reply! I work a bit with hardware, but I'm not terribly good with assembly. I know enough about hardware to know how hard this must be to get working - but it does interest me a lot. The more I learn, the more respect I have for the tools available. I guess for self-host