I am familiar with STAAPL. It looks pretty cool!
It is for the PIC18 which is largely obsolete now. Tom told me that he might
upgrade to the PIC24, but I'm not aware that he has done so yet. The PIC18 is
more powerful than the AVR8 that is used in the Arduino (and I don't know what
you mean by "Processing"). I like MicroChip as they provide very good
development tools and customer service --- although the PIC18 isn't exactly
cutting edge anymore, it is still a reasonable choice.
Tom's system isn't truly Forth, because the user can't write compile-time code
in Forth as is generally expected, but must write that stuff in Scheme --- only
the run-time code is written in Forth. Still though, it looked pretty
interesting. Now that I'm getting into Scheme, I may delve into STAAPL myself
as a learning exercise --- I might be able to borrow ideas for my own system.
:-)
Are there any other compilers written in Scheme? From what I've learned about
Scheme so far, it seems like a pretty good language for writing a compiler. The
books that I've read on compiler-writing assume C or Pascal (or Java for ANTLR)
--- but I haven't seen any using Scheme or Lisp. Of course, Scheme/Lisp have
always been used for writing a DSL inside of a program (as Dmitry is doing in
Racket, and has often been done in Forth), but what I'm referring to here is
cross-compiling to a processor target --- not just putting a syntax-layer on
top of an existing Scheme system.
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From: Jay McCarthy <[email protected]>
To: Grant Rettke <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Aguilar <[email protected]>; "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: [racket] Scheme's place in the world
You should look at Staapl:
http://zwizwa.be/staapl/
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Grant Rettke <[email protected]> wrote:
> Other than Straight Forth... what would you say is the best Forth
> available right now for someone wanting to get started with Forth and
> on real hardware? I'm interested in that vs something like Arduino and
> Processing for example.
>
> From what I read, and from what a good buddy of mine who is a Forth
> person and also a Lisp person... Scheme and Forth are spiritually very
> close and truly "hacker" languages moreso than everything else out
> there.
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