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- Message-ID: <ceR1RMa00WB70=4FQz@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 11:33:44 -0400
- From: Massimo Bigliardo <mb7r+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: // Scheme and other issues
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- Hi Scheme-ists,
- this discussion group has always provided a good source of information to
- people, like me, outside the "big circle" of the IEEE standards or the R^xRS
- community, still interested in the evolution of Scheme.
-
- As a reader, I would like to see more postings on some topics, like
- the control management, the use of continuations and the CPS programming.
- It would be interesting to me (and many others, I hope) if someone could
- report experiences in using continuations in compiler development, ideas
- on using the CPS for implementing Scheme, both on sequential machines
- and on parallel architectures.
-
- This last area deserves a greater attention: no contribution has ever been
- posted (or maybe I missed it) regarding the implementation/design
- of parallel Scheme systems. Nonetheless, there exist a lot of examples:
- Multilisp, Multischeme, Mult-T (QLIsp, *lisp, CMLisp or PaiLisp) for
- shared memory systems; Concurrent Scheme, in the case of Distributed
- Memory (besides a lot of "proposals", such as Polyscheme).
-
- I think this implementations arise a full spectrum of new issues, both
- semantic and syntactic (what is a continuation in a parallel evaluation?
- Is the future construct really needed? How can we exploit parallelism at
- compile time?) Those are just few examples, but many more may be discussed.
-
- To me it could be very useful to have sort of "tutorials" (I have most
- of the papers, but pointers/suggestions will always be welcome) posted
- from experts.
-
-
- (define (best l)
- (call/cc ;complex way
- (lambda (k) ;to say
- (k 'bye)))) ;simple things
-
-
- >(best 'regards)
-
-
- >BYE
-
- --Massimo
-