namekuseijin <namekusei...@gmail.com> writes: > On 13 out, 19:41, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) > wrote: >> namekuseijin <namekusei...@gmail.com> writes: >> > On 11 out, 08:49, Oleg Parashchenko <ole...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> >> I'd like to try the idea that Scheme can be considered as a new >> >> portable assembler. We could code something in Scheme and then compile >> >> it to PHP or Python or Java or whatever. >> >> >> Any suggestions and pointers to existing and related work are welcome. >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> My current approach is to take an existing Scheme implementation and >> >> hijack into its backend. At this moment Scheme code is converted to >> >> some representation with a minimal set of bytecodes, and it should be >> >> quite easy to compile this representation to a target language. After >> >> some research, the main candidates are Gambit, Chicken and CPSCM: >> >> >>http://uucode.com/blog/2010/09/28/r5rs-scheme-as-a-virtual-machine-i/... >> >> >> If there is an interest in this work, I could publish progress >> >> reports. >> >> >> -- >> >> Oleg Parashchenko o...@http://uucode.com/http://uucode.com/blog/ XML, >> >> TeX, Python, Mac, Chess >> >> > it may be assembler, too bad scheme libs are scattered around written >> > in far too many different flavors of assembler... >> >> > It warms my heart though to realize that Scheme's usual small size and >> > footprint has allowed for many quality implementations targetting many >> > different backends, be it x86 assembly, C, javascript or .NET. Take >> > python and you have a slow c bytecode interpreter and a slow >> > bytecode .NET compiler. Take haskell and its so friggin' huge and >> > complex that its got its very own scary monolithic gcc. When you >> > think of it, Scheme is the one true high-level language with many >> > quality perfomant backends -- CL has a few scary compilers for native >> > code, but not one to java, >> >> Yep, it only has two for java. > > I hope those are not Clojure and Qi... :p
No, they're CLforJava and ABCL. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
