Re: [fonc] A META-II for C that fits in a half a sheet of paper

2012-11-26 Thread Simon Forman
This is a fascinating tool. I wrote a python Meta II engine (attached.) It regenerates the asm source for the metacompiler but I haven't (yet) written a python-emitting metacompiler, just a VM for Meta II. (I'm actually targeting AVR microcontrollers but I'll almost certainly write a python

Re: [fonc] A META-II for C that fits in a half a sheet of paper

2012-11-25 Thread Long Nguyen
Thanks, Robert. Here is a fixed version of support.h with improved error handling. Long On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Robert Feldt robert.fe...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Long, this was a great meta-II to build on. I had to fix a bug in support.h (see diff at bottom) but then used your code

Re: [fonc] A META-II for C that fits in a half a sheet of paper

2012-11-24 Thread Robert Feldt
Thanks Long, this was a great meta-II to build on. I had to fix a bug in support.h (see diff at bottom) but then used your code to bootstrap the following, self-contained (i.e. contains its own support code (a bit hackish but good for learning)) Ruby version in 28 non-empty lines: .syntax

Re: [fonc] A META-II for C that fits in a half a sheet of paper

2012-11-22 Thread Christian Neukirchen
Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org writes: On 22 November 2012 07:54, Long Nguyen cgb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I was very impressed with Val Schorre's META-II paper that Dr. Kay gave me to read, A paper which, as far as I can tell, one still has to pay the ACM to read. Sigh. Or

Re: [fonc] A META-II for C that fits in a half a sheet of paper

2012-11-22 Thread Alan Kay
Oh yes ... I'd forgotten that I'd given this paper to the 1401 restoration group at the Computer History Museum (the 1401 was my first computer more than 50 years ago now -- it was a bit odd even relative to the more diverse designs of its day) http://ibm-1401.info/AlanKay-META-II.html

Re: [fonc] A META-II for C that fits in a half a sheet of paper

2012-11-22 Thread Chris Double
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Long Nguyen cgb...@gmail.com wrote: I was very impressed with Val Schorre's META-II paper that Dr. Kay gave me to read, There's a nice META-II walkthrough/tutorial here if people are interested in trying it online: