Thank you, Danny Yoo. But as a C programmer, I was thinking more low-level as well such as how does racket virtual machine manage its memory, what is the implementation detail about its built-in data types, and of course, I am interested in its mechanism and strategies based on these facilities.
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Grant Rettke <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. I was thinking more about, how Racket itself works, where a > newbie might start looking at the code. > > On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Danny Yoo <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Grant Rettke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In that same vein, what are good entry points for learning about how > >> racket works? I think, learning how the #lang line itself works might > >> be one of them? > > > > The Guide has an introduction to how #lang works: > > > > http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/languages.html > > > > That may be a good place to start. > > > > > > If you're looking for example-driven approaches, perhaps: > > > > http://hashcollision.org/brainfudge/ > > > > may be applicable? I also wrote up a quick-and-dirty example of > > writing a #lang for a simple DSL for ascii diagrams for 'ragg': > > > > > http://hashcollision.org/ragg/#(part._.Example__a_small_.D.S.L_for_.A.S.C.I.I_diagrams) > > > > > > > > For a more substantial example, perhaps Jens's minipascal project? > > > > https://pkg.racket-lang.org/info/minipascal > > > > -- > Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE > [email protected] | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ > Wisdom begins in wonder. > ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) >
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