> And yes, it would be nice to have a bootstrap from any popular > language. Even better: how about a single abstract general-purpose > `generic' description of how to bootstrap a system, that could > generate a concrete bootstrap in any popular and locally-convenient > language? But that was just the original idea of Maru (or at least of > its immediate predecessor). To date, however, the only `back-ends' > I've managed to make are C and x86 assembler, and neither in a form > that could really be called general-purpose. And the only serious > front end is a textual representation of the intermediate > representation. And the intermediate representation lacks any of the > rigour that such an ideal deserves. > > The simplest possible bijections from any GP programming system to > extended lambda calculus, and from ELC to any GP computer hardware, > still eludes. > That's the approach taken by Shen (and before it Qi): implement the entire language on top of a rather minimal "kernel lambda" lisp layer, that itself is implemented in CL, JS, C, Java, etc. http://shenlanguage.org/download_form.html https://github.com/Shen-Language/shen-sources
Problem is they forget to complete the bootstrap with a compiler. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org "An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." — H.L. Mencken _______________________________________________ Fonc mailing list Fonc@mailman.vpri.org http://mailman.vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc_mailman.vpri.org
