Re: [IAEP] Turtles All The Way Down

2011-05-21 Thread mokurai
On Fri, May 20, 2011 9:32 pm, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: The question is: does this really have educational value? Turtles all the way down is a great slogan, and a fine way to teach a graduate-level class on compiler technology, See * The Anatomy of LISP, by John Allen, and LISP machines, for

Re: [IAEP] Turtles All The Way Down

2011-05-21 Thread C. Scott Ananian
I'm familiar with the processors designed for specific high-level languages. There was another generation of them built for Java (microblaze, picoblaze, etc) and some of those are even still commercially significant (they run Java subsets on smart cards). I'm not terribly interested in those

[IAEP] Raspberry Pi (was Fwd: [Sur] linux system por $25)

2011-05-21 Thread Edward Cherlin
FYI. Anybody who would like to port Sugar to a $25 computer (requiring only monitor, mouse, and keyboard) should contact Eben, and let us know too. -- Forwarded message -- From: Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com Date: Sat, May 21, 2011 at 22:10 Subject: Re: [Sur] linux system por

[IAEP] Fwd: [Womeninfreesoftware] [x-post] Fwd: pseudo-summer of code (paid)

2011-05-21 Thread Edward Cherlin
FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: ॥ स्वक्ष ॥ v...@svaksha.com Date: Sat, May 21, 2011 at 01:45 Subject: [Womeninfreesoftware] [x-post] Fwd: pseudo-summer of code (paid) To: Discussion re: increasing women's participation in free software womeninfreesoftw...@gnu.org,