From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: vm status update, a.k.a. yowsers batman it's february already Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:50:41 +0100 Message-ID: <871vugh8bi.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233607894 10434 80.91.229.12 (2 Feb 2009 20:51:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 20:51:34 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 02 21:52:48 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LU5md-0004e7-E7 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:52:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45488 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LU5lK-0006rm-QC for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:51:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LU5lG-0006rX-6r for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:51:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LU5lC-0006rL-MW for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:51:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47444 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LU5lC-0006rG-Gd for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:51:14 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:43993 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LU5lC-0005F5-1k for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:51:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LU5l7-0007ea-U4 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:51:10 +0000 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:51:09 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:51:09 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 14 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pluvi=F4se?= an 217 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MKF0fEMY+STsO/g+yOI8jCgoY9A= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:8116 Archived-At: Hello Andy! Thanks for all the good news! Andy Wingo writes: > * I think there's something publishable in all of this language tower > business, but I'd need a convincing second high-level language. I > think JavaScript is the right one. We need to write a compiler to > GHIL, and probably extend the VM slightly. Hop [0] has `scm2js', a Scheme to Javascript compiler [1]. There might be useful ideas or code to borrow from that. Cheers, Ludo'. [0] http://hop.inria.fr/ [1] http://hop.inria.fr/usr/local/share/hop/weblets/home/articles/scheme2js/article.html