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

2009-06-25 Thread andrey mirtchovski
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 misse

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

2009-06-25 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
2009/6/25 andrey mirtchovski : > 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 s

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

2009-06-25 Thread David Leimbach
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 wrote: > 2009/6/25 andrey mirtchovski : > > 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 wi

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

2009-06-25 Thread John Floren
TinyScheme has been in contrib for a long time, but I don't know its limitations or how it would stack up against 'ChibiScheme' John On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:53 AM, David Leimbach 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,

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

2009-06-25 Thread Bakul Shah
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 implementa

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

2009-06-25 Thread Iruata Souza
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:42 PM, John Floren wrote: > TinyScheme has been in contrib for a long time, but I don't know its > limitations or how it would stack up against 'ChibiScheme' > > John Alex (the article's author) mentions it at http://groups.google.com/group/plan9-gsoc/browse_thread/thread

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

2009-06-25 Thread David Leimbach
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 di

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

2009-06-25 Thread blstuart
> 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. For Inferno, look at: http://code.google.com/p/inferno-scheme It's best considered embryonic, and has been that way for a little while as I've been side-