So I'm sure you're all wondering what I flew half way around the world to do.

Well, I'm working in Purdue University. My supervisor is a big scheme freak, so all my work will be in scheme. At the moment I'm writing benchmark programs for the Debian programming languages shootout using Stalin, which as well as being an agressive soviet dictator is also an agressively optimising scheme compiler. Allegedly it is faster than any other functional programming language implementation, so us interns are given the job of proving it. It's not expected to beat Intel cc, fortran or gcc, but should beat ocaml, mlton, haskell, etc.

When the rest of people from my group arrive I'm going to be working on some of source code repository thing, more will be explained later.