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Topics: monads, Common Lisp, functional programming Author: Marijn Haverbeke Date: July 11th 2008 Today I was trying write a parser for a reasonably complicated language. Since I do not tend to learn from other people's work or even from my own past mistakes, and tend to greatly underestimate the complexity of tasks (or overestimate my own skills) this went something like this: Try to quickly writ

Implementing a Syntax-Highlighting JavaScript Editor—In JavaScript /* A brutal odyssey to the dark side of the DOM tree */ In one of his (very informative) video lectures, Douglas Crockford remarks that writing JavaScript for the web is 'programming in a hostile environment'. I had done my fair share of weird workarounds, and even occasonally gave up an on idea entirely because browsers just would

Continuation-Passing Style and why JavaScript developers might be interested in it Topic: JavaScript, 'AJAX', continuations Audience: JavaScript programmers Author: Marijn Haverbeke Date: July 24th 2007 Most programmers, at least those whose interests go beyond just Java or PHP, will at some point have come across the concept of continuations. When I read the Scheme Revised Report for the first ti