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: Lightning Bindings Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:55:08 +0200 Message-ID: <87typmd4eb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bpbya2r3.fsf@ambire.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1275414945 10980 80.91.229.12 (1 Jun 2010 17:55:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:55:45 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 01 19:55:36 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJVgd-0006dr-9x for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:55:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35407 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OJVgc-0000ij-Tw for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:55:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58296 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OJVgW-0000ie-0V for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:55:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJVgU-0007Xq-LM for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:55:27 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36356) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJVgU-0007XB-GF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJVgM-0006TJ-Ew for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:55:18 +0200 Original-Received: from acces.bordeaux.inria.fr ([193.50.110.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:55:18 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by acces.bordeaux.inria.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:55:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: acces.bordeaux.inria.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 13 Prairial an 218 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: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+9LWNt4wI8VtP4SW70D6CLZewTg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:10413 Archived-At: Hello, Noah Lavine writes: > I didn't realize GCC had a Lisp interface. Interfacing with GCC would > be excellent. MELT is a “middle end”, useful when writing optimization passes, but not when writing a front-end. > This is perhaps far-fetched, but I think the best thing would be if we > could persuade them to replace MELT with Guile. It looks to me from > the docs like MELT is yet another Lisp engine, which is exactly what > Guile is trying to replace. We could offer them a well-tested, > more-feature-complete extension language, and they could offer us > interfaces to good code generation. I don’t think that’d work because MELT is very tightly integrated with GCC’s internals AIUI. Thanks, Ludo’.