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January 24, 2007
Quick bits of programming language news...
Dtrace for Javascript: There are details of how to set up Dtrace to trace Javascript code at Brendan Gregg's blog on blogs.sun.com. The bare bones is that he is providing a modified version of the Spider Monkey Javascript engine with Dtrace probes coded in. Installing the shared library into the appropriate location on a machine running Solaris will give Dtrace visibility into Javascript code running in Firefox. AJAX bugs have nowhere to hide now.
A new draft of the R6RS for Scheme: Revision 5.92 Recommended Specification for Scheme is up on site, www.r6rs.org. It has been split into two PDFs, one for the core language and one for the libraries. The total page count for the two files is about 150 pages.
Posted by JohnC at January 24, 2007 11:14 PM