Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. Looks like I'll have plenty of reading to keep me busy for a while.<div> </div><div>-Curtis</div><div> </div><div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay.mccarthy@gmail.com" target="_blank">jay.mccarthy@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">As for implementation Racket and/or Scheme, I'd suggest reading Dybvig's papers [1], particularly his dissertation (which is very readable by a novice) [2]. Also the articles on Larceny [3], including its web page about the compiler [4]. Finally, Casey Klein (and others) have a paper that describes the adaptions made to one of the models in Dybvig's dissertation (at least that's the way I read it) to derive the VM underneath Racket [5]. I'd say that each of those three strands are mostly independent and you could start down any of them. Jay 1. <a href="http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs.html" target="_blank">http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs.html</a> 2. <a href="http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs/3imp.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs/3imp.pdf</a> 3. <a href="http://www.larcenists.org/research.html" target="_blank">http://www.larcenists.org/research.html</a> 4. <a href="http://www.larcenists.org/twobit.html" target="_blank">http://www.larcenists.org/twobit.html</a> 5. <a href="http://plt.eecs.northwestern.edu/racket-machine/" target="_blank">http://plt.eecs.northwestern.edu/racket-machine/</a> <div><div class="h5"> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 8:32 AM, curtis wolterding <<a href="mailto:curtiswolterding@gmail.com">curtiswolterding@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Hello Racketeers, > > A friend and I recently finished working through this book together, The > Elements of Computing Systems - <a href="http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/" target="_blank">http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/</a>, where we built > a computer (virtually) from the ground up: from NAND gates, to a (barely) > working compiler and a very basic OS. After finishing all of the projects, > and after having a month or so now to recover from the stress and pure > insanity, I can't stop thinking about how fun it would be to learn about the > implementation of Scheme, or, more specifically, Racket! Does anyone know > where I could find a good discussion or explanation of the inner workings of > either of these languages? > > I apologize if this is an off-topic question for the mailing list. > > Also, I want to sincerely thank the Racket Devs for creating such a well > documented, and user-friendly project. Other than completing about half of > HTDP (I'm planning on finishing the rest this summer!), and a very > introductory C++ class many years ago in college, the Elements book was > really my first introduction to computing. Having coded the assembler, VM, > and compiler for the book in Racket, I have basically lived on the Racket > docs pages for the last three quarters of a year. It's been an amazing > journey, and I honestly could not have completed everything had Racket not > come with such excellent documentation, such an easy to use IDE, or had it > not been such a joy to code in. On behalf of a true beginner, thank you. > > Cheers, > > Curtis Wolterding </div></div>> ____________________ > Racket Users list: > <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> > -- Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay@cs.byu.edu">jay@cs.byu.edu</a>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University <a href="http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay" target="_blank">http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay</a> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 </blockquote></div> </div>