Re: [9fans] off-topic: "small is beautiful" article

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

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Gambit is really great.  Runs on "bare metal" on the Nintendo DS (with a bit
of work).
There is a distribtued programming extension for
Gambit called "Termite" that uses the same approach as Erlang as well.

Very neat stuff :-).  I nearly used Gambit at work on an embedded
platform, but had some difficulty with the port I was trying to make
work so I never proved out the concept completely.

Dave

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Bakul Shah
<bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com<bakul%2Bplan9@bitblocks.com>
> wrote:

> Nils Holm's Scheme interpreter @ http://t3x.org/s9fes has
> been available for a few months now.  It runs on plan9 though
> not on inferno.  Like Chibi-scheme it too is fairly small.
> (about 5.5Klocs of C, 1.4Klock of Scheme).
>
> I am more interested in Gambit as it is one of the fastest
> Scheme implementations and supposed to be easy to port. See
> http://jlongster.com/blog/2009/06/17/write-apps-iphone-scheme/
> Though I suspect a port to plan9 may be harder than iphone.
>
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:53:11 PDT David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
>  wrote:
> >
> > COOL!  So there's a Scheme in the works for Inferno and Plan 9?
> > Dave
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Devon H. O'Dell <devon.odell@gmail.com
> >wrote
> > :
> >
> > > 2009/6/25 andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com>:
> > > > Mentions Plan 9 just at the end in the context of C compilers,
> > > > although the argument of the article, that being able to "do more
> with
> > > > less" is better, is applicable to Plan 9 in the OS field too.
> > > >
> > > > http://synthcode.com/blog/2009/06/Small_is_Beautiful
> > > >
> > > > I'm sorry if this got posted earlier and I missed it.
> > >
> > > This is our GSoC student who is working on making his scheme
> > > interpreter work in Plan 9. Check there more frequently for his
> > > progress and musings!
> > >
> > > --dho
>
>

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