P. S. I was presuming that people on this list are reading FONC related stuff on the VPRI writings page ...
But just in case, please check out a few of Ian's recent papers on minimal direct to machine code schemes. Cheers, Alan ________________________________ From: Alan Kay <alan.n...@yahoo.com> To: Fundamentals of New Computing <fonc@vpri.org> Sent: Sat, April 9, 2011 7:44:46 PM Subject: Re: [fonc] bootstrapping B These approaches are always fun to look at. A good question here is whether this many-level scheme is better than to pick something like a simple Lisp-like or OMeta-like language (e.g. it came from Meta II, which is really simple) that can output machine code and simply hand translate the first version into machine code. Cheers, Alan ________________________________ From: Shawn Morel <shawnmo...@me.com> To: Fundamentals of New Computing <fonc@vpri.org> Sent: Sat, April 9, 2011 3:37:03 PM Subject: [fonc] bootstrapping B I don't recall seeing this posted before. A few layers of 386 raw op-code bootstrapping successively more powerful environments (up to the point of macros that do sys calls and things like 'get-token:') There's something quite appealing about the minimalism of the linear approach (on top of bare metal) compared to the more brain twisting 'bootstrap in C to rewrite in the new environment.' http://homepage.ntlworld.com/edmund.grimley-evans/bcompiler.html cheers, shawn
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