Xoc, yaspl (yet another SPL)

[Justin Johansson]

On 19/08/10 22:19, Justin Johansson wrote:
>> 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?

Hmm, I'm a bit slow to realize as well that Xoc is Cox spelt backwards!