From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Noah Lavine Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: The progress of hacking guile and prolog Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:15:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: <201010212223.23822.stefan.itampe@gmail.com> <87bp66q8g5.fsf@gnu.org> <877hgjx1w9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289503513 30308 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2010 19:25:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:25:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ludovic_Court=E8s?= Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 11 20:25:09 2010 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 1PGclh-0006gJ-BB for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:25:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44832 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGclg-0007iu-Np for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59501 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGcd5-0002Nv-7i for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:16:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGccI-0006pc-Eu for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:15:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com ([74.125.82.41]:58873) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGccI-0006pJ-AL; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:15:26 -0500 Original-Received: by wwc33 with SMTP id 33so236955wwc.0 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:15:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nUBt9Y/Jzeca8gjCSBEWmTYUWjNtpXRu4sQI2Xb7et8=; b=sAzypEcBaBDw4loNCkhsVn9qcwJbQNkpt+gMH2HHctTZcn9VPDejzSyvcclyV3umNR P6NFHuzZkJ96Ha1bofCVItkK0OAxwtTtfAO3vO5OlbgxzSjf4gBAJ/Uc8mlgjGJgRmEd R0wx2hYfbQPqAHf5dg4JPnHUMlT/7BuipXb2M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=NNinMENAYDifPFsyvbn5SSuz+mF4uyvEbbsPOtxJHTPlu4VSe8Zz7qQQvnFaYUxc8R ERlgWOxjE++eNe+vSGaNmAZfLvfhnrfWHWpDwqqMhEBuzOmfbbwL//LnimYY0L6AsIki hdmIyNx9wFFalQaDt3pYQKYVyCgqLZEa4EvS8= Original-Received: by 10.216.4.78 with SMTP id 56mr2776448wei.37.1289502925131; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:15:25 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.216.237.34 with HTTP; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:15:25 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <877hgjx1w9.fsf@gnu.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3cdseaNASsl_j8kRluxNZFZl3rU X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:11131 Archived-At: > Interesting. =A0I thought you were going rather to compile a subset of > Scheme to C, which could be used to implement VM instructions, no? Yes, that was my plan, sorry. I want to compile things to C, not from C to machine code. Also, to clarify, I am looking at compiling not a subset of C, but something like register transfer language. That way the compiler can be very simple and hopefully obviously correct. Noah