Re: [racket] Scheme's place in the world

2012-11-22 Thread Ville Sokk
Check out the book Lisp in Small Pieces. Also, one of the early Haskell compilers was written in Common Lisp. On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Hugh Aguilar wrote: > Are there any other compilers written in Scheme? From what I've learned > about Scheme so far, it seems like a pretty good language

Re: [racket] Scheme's place in the world

2012-11-21 Thread Patrick Li
I am writing a compiler in Scheme. And it is an extremely pleasant language to writing a compiler in. There are also very few Scheme compilers that are *not* written in Scheme. -Patrick On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Hugh Aguilar wrote: > Are there any other compilers written in Scheme? Fro

Re: [racket] Scheme's place in the world

2012-11-21 Thread Hugh Aguilar
just putting a syntax-layer on top of an existing Scheme system. From: Jay McCarthy To: Grant Rettke Cc: Hugh Aguilar ; "users@racket-lang.org" Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 9:52 AM Subject: Re: [racket] Scheme's place in the world You should look at Staapl:

Re: [racket] Scheme's place in the world

2012-11-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:19:09PM -0800, Hugh Aguilar wrote: > Good job on being one of the very few HLL programmers to grasp the > concept of mixed-precision integer arithmetic! Assembly language > programmers understand this idea easily, but I almost never meet an > HLL programmer who gets it

Re: [racket] Scheme's place in the world

2012-11-21 Thread Jordan Johnson
On Nov 20, 2012, at 9:19 PM, Hugh Aguilar wrote: > The only way to make money is by selling circuit-boards that do something > useful --- and those boards have to be programmed somehow, which is where > Straight Forth comes in. Boards are a product that can be sold. Software is > not a product

Re: [racket] Scheme's place in the world

2012-11-21 Thread Jay McCarthy
You should look at Staapl: http://zwizwa.be/staapl/ On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Grant Rettke 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 somet

Re: [racket] Scheme's place in the world

2012-11-21 Thread Grant Rettke
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 Fort

[racket] Scheme's place in the world

2012-11-20 Thread Hugh Aguilar
Good job on being one of the very few HLL programmers to grasp the concept of mixed-precision integer arithmetic! Assembly language programmers understand this idea easily, but I almost never meet an HLL programmer who gets it. I have a long history programming in Forth. Now I'm writing my own l