[A86] Re: What about LISP?

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: [A86] Re: What about LISP?
From: "Andreas Finne" <a_finne@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 13:29:34 +0200
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org

How would it be with a SCHEME interpreter? As far as I know, SCHEME is used 
in many schools as the first language in computer science. I just mean that 
there (probably) is a lot more people that would find a scheme interpreter 
useful than a pure lisp interpreter.

Andreas Finne


----Original Message Follows----
From: "David West" <bdaddy_mit@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: [A86] What about LISP?
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 00:17:53 +0000




All,

	I've been thinking on and off lately about the descussions that took place
a couple of months ago regaurding a new z80 language compiler.  One of the
visions I (personally) have had with this hypothetical language is that it
would form the basis of a self-contained versital platform for the TI-86.
That is with this new language, a new OS could be written to take advantage
of the TI-86's ample memory.  Now that last part might going out on a limb.
But with this way in the back of your mind, I want to submit for
consideration the idea of building a LISP interpreter for the TI-86.

	Now I'm trying to think way out of the box, I don't neccessarily mean a
completely "idealized" LISP interpreter.  What I see in this idea is a few
positive qualities.  The LISP grammar is very easy to parse, (this helps
make it a doable project) and implimenting shared libraries appears to be
possible with this language.  I see these as being positive qualities of a
language for consideration for these Z80 based calculators. (especially the
code sharing capabilities)

	In the feature, if I have time to think about it more, I will throw out
some possible implimentation details of this mini-LISP machine, in terms of
how it would actually be usefull.  But for now I thought I would throw this
out, to my collegues, as a sort of a sanity check to make sure I'm not
barking down the wrong path.  Again I want to emphisise that this LISP
implimentation might not look anything like what has been built in the past.
   I just want to strip out all the redeming qualities from the language and
insert anything that would help a z80 programmer.  For example maybe our
LISP interpreter would allow for inline assembly routines.

Ex:

(define Put-Sprite (lambda (x y)
       (Z80-Asm '("LD A, X"
                  "XOR B"
		 .... ))))

	It just might be the glue we've been looking for.

later on,

David E. West

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