From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: on bootstrapping: first Mes 0.3 released Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 08:58:27 +0100 Organization: AvatarAcademy.nl Message-ID: <87shpjdobg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pokwua3s.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9683i82.fsf@web.de> <87lgvku6jq.fsf@gnu.org> <87r357vo8y.fsf@dustycloud.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1482220755 7827 195.159.176.226 (20 Dec 2016 07:59:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 07:59:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: Christopher Allan Webber Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 20 08:59:09 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cJFKF-0000bV-4o for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Dec 2016 08:59:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49640 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cJFKJ-0002VK-PG for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Dec 2016 02:59:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52743) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cJFJv-0002UH-To for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Dec 2016 02:58:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cJFJs-0001Qr-SP for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Dec 2016 02:58:48 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56197) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cJFJg-0001Pq-67; Tue, 20 Dec 2016 02:58:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mx.verum.com ([31.223.170.65]:21002 helo=dundal.peder.onsbrabantnet.nl) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cJFJe-0000vv-Ih; Tue, 20 Dec 2016 02:58:31 -0500 X-Url: http://AvatarAcademy.nl In-Reply-To: <87r357vo8y.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Allan Webber's message of "Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:21:17 -0600") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:13035 Archived-At: Christopher Allan Webber writes: > First, I'm really excited you're making progress on Mes! Yay, thanks! > Second, Scheme48 did something similar to this, called "Pre-Scheme", > which is how they bootstrapped Scheme48 iirc. Have you heard of it or > looked at it? Ah, that's nice. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PreScheme Yes, that helps. I looked briefly at Scheme48 but could not make much of it. This helps a lot. Amazing trick. It's not enough if we want to bootstrap from source only, but it could help. Greetings, Jan --=20 Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar=C2=AE http://AvatarAcademy.nl= =20=20