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From: Tony Garnock-Jones <you.can.find.me.through@google.easily>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The secret of hand compiling LISP/Scheme
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:16:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Co-dnRKoB9K-A5fanZ2dnUVZ8s2mnZ2d@eclipse.net.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1191876071.828746.33880@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>

Hi,

gnuist006@hotmail.com wrote:
> Tony, thanks for the info. But why do I need to go to forth for
> this?

It's not that you need to go to FORTH - it's that the techniques so 
lucidly explained by Richard Jones in his essay 
(http://www.annexia.org/_file/jonesforth.s.txt) generalise with *very* 
few modifications to implementing Scheme. I encourage you to read the 
essay. I believe that if you do so, you will start to see the 
relationship between the very low level and the very high level that you 
are interested in.

You will need not very much more assembly to build (the kernel of) a 
Scheme than to build (the kernel of) a FORTH.

Regards,
   Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-08 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2007-10-08 20:41       ` The secret of hand compiling LISP/Scheme gnuist006
2007-10-08 21:16         ` Tony Garnock-Jones [this message]
2007-10-09 11:21         ` Kaz Kylheku

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