Re: [fonc] Binary Lambda Calculus

2013-03-27 Thread Jan Wedekind
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Chris Warburton wrote: John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com writes: So is anyone looking at binary parser generators? It would seem like something like this would have been done ages ago. Brings to mind Every Bit Counts. It's a library for serialising and deserialising

Re: [fonc] Binary Lambda Calculus

2013-03-26 Thread Jan Wedekind
Hi John and Andre, On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, John Tromp wrote: dear Andre/Jan, PGA is very different from BLC of course, but both are a simple linear notations. PGA starts with jump instructions, and it has step by step extensions for variables, control structures, semaphores etc. It has been

[fonc] Binary Lambda Calculus

2013-03-25 Thread Jan Wedekind
Hi, After reading John Tromp's paper [1] (also see De Bruijn Index [2]) I got very interested in Binary Lambda Calculus (BLC). In my little spare time I implemented a BLC interpreter in C [3, 4]. I thought it would be interesting to share it on this mailing list since the motivation