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And Comments that are FAQS -- particularly PyPy and Cython.

Here are some more comments.

I want to clear the air for posts on parsing.

None of these posts are particularly actionable. I may refer to some of these concepts later in the blog.

Parsing

Parsing Techniques You Will See In Practice -- 3 styles of parsing you will see in practice

Review of the "Science of insecurity" / langsec [langseg.org][] -- CFGs are the wrong abstraction

Parsing C -- lexer hack, etc.

Metaprogramming

This one is probably the most important link.

Metaprogramming

What Oil is doing is not new: Converge and Mython. Not to mention PyPy!

Follow up on type checking vs. metaprogramming

Followup on oheap:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/79fkpu/representingastsasbytestringswithwith_small/

Python

[python3][] -- why I didn't use it

[python3][https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/7elxlv/python3andfirefox57anobservation/dq6ixqu/]

pypy

Language Design

Oil goals:

Go/Erlang with Security

Also: weren't there ones about bazel and config languages?

• huffman coding and language design: /r/programminglanguages
  • Larry Wall coined this?

Languages Should Focus on Compatibility

Joe Duffy talk -- did Rust focus enough on compatibility?

Nobody ever rewrites anything -- Go. However Oil does do automatic translation

C is two languages -- shell is also two languages

TensorFlow is a Progrmaming Language and has Language Problems

TensorFlow Model -- related to Oil. A strict computational model.

Language Implementation

translation units, type information

• Python structs vs. slots -- don't have time for this right now

  • i wrote CODE for this though. The dict lookup thingy.

• Kinds of metaprogramming, why compile-time compuing

  • I want to make a matrix of language X implementation technique.
  • maybe make a spreadsheet

Data Frame Use Cases: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15595181

I argue you don't need distributed data frames. R Dialect.

Language and Technology Adoption

I am spending a lot of time on Oil, so I want it to be adopted. I'm scratching my own itch, but it's more interesting if other people's itches are also scratched!

TBL genius

• C++ Viral, COM

  • I put this on the oilshell reddit.

Programming Languages Shouldn't Nag You (with respect to GC and safety) -- language

- C doesn't nag you, but it allows your program to run wild
- Python and Java don't nag you, but they impose large runtime costs
- Rust and Haskell nag you

Unix

TODO: The problem of killing untrusted processes ?

Other

You should learn R, because it passes the Perlis test? (lobste.rs)