Xoc, yaspl (yet another SPL)

[Justin Johansson]

On 18/08/10 03:38, bearophile wrote:
> Justin Johansson:
>> Has anyone here come across Xoc before?
>
> Never seen it before. It looks interesting.
>
> The good thing of LLVM is that there is a bit higher probability that similar works become integrated with it, instead of just dying as hundreds of similar experiments have done in the last thirty years or so.
>
> More info here:
> http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/xoc/
>
> A paper about it:
> http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/xoc/asplos08.pdf
>
> The xoc-unstable.tgz-1\xoc-unstable\zeta\xoc\x directory inside here shows most of the examples discussed in the paper:
> http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/xoc/xoc-unstable.tgz
> Even the examples look interesting, like the extension "Sparse" written by Linux to avoid bugs when writing the kernel...
>

Yes, well, I just noticed from that link
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/xoc/
a mention of Russ Cox.

Russ Cox's Ph.D. thesis, “An Extension-Oriented Compiler”, gives more 
details about the entire system, as well as a definition of the zeta 
language.

Now isn't Russ Cox one of the Go PL authors?