On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Weddington, Eric <eric.wedding...@atmel.com> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dosr...@gmail.com [mailto:dosr...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Gabriel Dos >> Reis >> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 11:48 AM >> To: Weddington, Eric >> Cc: Georg-Johann Lay; avr-gcc-list@nongnu.org; Joerg Wunsch >> Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] using exceptions >> >> >> Essentially, we would like to: >> (1) "spice up" our programming class projects with >> robots programming -- many of our students are native C++ speakers, >> and AVR-based robots are cheap :-) >> >> (2) as a research project, some of my students would like to >> program AVR microcontrollers in Haskell to explore the >> "functional reactive programming" paradigm. However, GHC, >> the most popular Haskell compiler does not support AVR and I >> do not think it is going to do so in the near future, based on >> discussions >> I have had with GHC key developers. So, a subgroup >> of students (under my direction) has set up to write a >> compiler for a subset >> of Haskell targetting AVR. This is quite an exciting research >> project. >> > > I'm sorry, I forgot to ask: Is this for a university class? If so, what > University?
I am with the department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. https://parasol.tamu.edu/~gdr/ We are 3 in the programming language group: Bjarne Stroustrup, Jaakko Jarvi, and myself. I am the only professor working on AVR right now :-) The AVR project is a research-based class I have been offering to a select group of undergraduate students. It will continue through the next academic year. I am also developing a new class on programming language implementation. I offered it last year; I had student work from "scratch" (except that I gave them a lexer and a parser). The implementation was only an advanced interpreter. I am offering it again this Fall. For subsequent classes, I would like them to test their compilers on robotics project :-) -- Gaby _______________________________________________ AVR-GCC-list mailing list AVR-GCC-list@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-gcc-list
