From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 2 04:37:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA04392 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 04:37:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA04382 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 04:37:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA24086; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 04:37:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Mike Smith cc: Andrzej Bialecki , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New boot loader and alternate kernels In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 01 Nov 1998 17:31:51 PST." <199811020131.RAA07047@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 04:37:01 -0800 Message-ID: <24082.910010221@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Ok. Should I commit my working version so that we have a central place > to perform the strip-down and integration? Sounds good to me. > Again, being not much of a Forth head it's not clear whether we should > keep all of the compiled-in functionality and just strip the things > that can be reloaded at runtime. I think we should strip pretty much anything that can't be expressed in high level forth. Now that I've found my 4th roadmap URL again, I can look at some of the minimalist forths and grab or reference their HLL implementations of various words from the forth83 spec. > I hope not. 8) I'm all in favour of extension languages but I'm still > in two minds about whether Forth is going to be the right one for this > job. Given the space constraints, one has to wonder whether you have any choice. :-) It would be easy enough to add some simple conditional expression parsing to the existing tiny interpreter, but that wouldn't be anywhere near as flexible. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message