RE: You missed my later work

[<Jeremiah@pdp10.guru>]

I had recently watched your FOSDEM talk https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/guixsdbootstrap/ [fosdem.org]
Which you seem to have confused my hex assembler as an end in itself, rather than the first step in Stage0

Basically, I decided to steal a good idea from the C and pascal languages (o-code and p-code specificly)
Define a trivial to implement virtual machine (vm.c vm.h vm_decode.c and vm_instructions.c [optionally tty.c and/or dynamic_execution_trace.c but neither is required])
Who's entire instruction set is define in ISA_HEX_Map.org

That way all platforms can independently verify every step

Looking at your work, I can't help but wonder if we might be making that bootstrap step harder than it has to be.
What if we converted my lisp interpreter into a lisp compiler? Could that simplify your initial bootstrap?
Since instead of trying to do the full C compiler in scheme in a single step, we could do:
Primitive_scheme -> minimal_scheme -> full_scheme -> done

What do you think?

Jeremiah Orians
State of Michigan
Cell phone: (517) 896-2948

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen [mailto:janneke@gnu.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 5:09 PM
> To: Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB) <OriansJ@michigan.gov>
> Subject: Re: You missed my later work
> 
> Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB) writes:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Thanks for reaching out.
> 
>> https://github.com/oriansj/stage0 [github.com]
> 
>> It includes everything one needs, starting from a hex monitor to a primitive lisp for
>> a very portable VM specification (Which is also included and implemented)
> 
> You implemented a LISP? I'll have to look into it! I looked at your
> amazing self hosting hex assembler and that's what got me going on
> implementing Mes.
> 
> What do you mean by `You missed my later work?,' are you referring to
> some event? I have been very busy working on Mes: a scheme intepreter
> written in C, that can execute a Scheme program which is a C compiler
> that can compile itself. I'm almost done: Guile can run the C compiler
> in Scheme, Mes still fails.
> 
> Have you been following Mes? I'm wondering if we can/should work
> together somehow. It seems we very much are working towards a similar
> goal.
> 
> Greetings, janneke.
> 
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