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Arc for Arm
3 points by natarajsn 5837 days ago | 5 comments
Hi

There is an implementation of Scheme language on Arm processors by name Armpit Scheme (http://armpit.sourceforge.net/).

Can we have project to port Arc in Arm ?



1 point by shader 5830 days ago | link

Neat idea. How would we go about starting said project? I suppose it would mean making some macros for arm assembly, and then implementing arc's primitives in those macros as opposed to scheme?

It sounds more like a compiler situation than an interpreted one.

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1 point by natarajsn 5798 days ago | link

Hi

Sure. It seems to be a compiler situation. How different are Arc and Scheme? Give me some tips to start off implementing arc's primitives.

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1 point by CatDancer 5798 days ago | link

The first step would be to read and understand arc2/ac.scm, which is an MzScheme program which translates Arc code into MzScheme.

Then you could look at if ac.scm is using any MzScheme features that Armpit Scheme doesn't have.

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1 point by natarajsn 5830 days ago | link

I think it would be nice to port Arc to be embedded processors like Arm7, which use, presently, pure C and C++ for development.

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1 point by ltol 5769 days ago | link

Could get Arc on phones. Maybe iPod. Worth a try.

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