A C compiler in LISP, a LISP in C, and the subject that changed my life
In 1986 I took Compiler Techniques under Bruce Ellis and wrote a C compiler in LISP. I have got it running again, on hardware that did not exist when I wrote it.
Programming languages
4 articles and 1 project.
Writing
The HP 48, and two programs I wrote for it
I have loved HP calculators all my life, and the HP 48 was the first I bought with my own hard earned money. In 1991 I taught mine the foreign exchange market and how to price a bond.
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hello polyglots: one program, eight languages
A program three of us wrote in 1991 that compiles and runs in eight languages, and what became of it.
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Rubato: A Music Input and Performance System
My 1987 honours thesis at the University of Sydney. A language for writing music down that reads like music rather than like code, and a system that performs it.
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Projects
lisp-cc
The C compiler I wrote in LISP for Bruce Ellis's Compiler Techniques subject at Sydney, recovered and grown into a full K&R 1978 compiler that emits arm64 instead of VAX. Ships with a reconstruction of the LISP interpreter it was marked against and the 1979 Seventh Edition C library, so the whole thing still bootstraps itself to a byte-identical fixed point.
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