From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 5 22:50: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from KIWI-Computer.com (kiwi-computer.com [63.224.10.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD71237B401 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:50:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by KIWI-Computer.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f865rLE65613 for current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 00:53:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from freebsd) From: FreeBSD Fanatic Message-Id: <200109060553.f865rLE65613@KIWI-Computer.com> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS In-Reply-To: <200109060512.BAA29542@devonshire.cnchost.com> "from Bakul Shah at Sep 5, 2001 10:12:27 pm" To: current@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 00:53:21 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Show us a suitable LISP interpreter, then. > > $ cd ~/lang/Scheme/tinyscm-1.27 > $ size scheme > text data bss dec hex filename > 61342 4476 3480 69298 10eb2 scheme Is that statically-linked? I'm curious to know the size of the bootloader forth footprint. The loader is about 150k, so I'm sure you could probably fit a nice Scheme interpreter in under that size... ?? > Tinyscheme is a mostly complete R5RS Scheme (R5RS is the You can also conditionally-compile the components to make a smaller footprint. I'm highly in favor of Scheme replacing 4th... It's a very easy language to learn (only 11 special forms) yet still powerful (you can't pass code as data in BASIC ;). If you replace the boot loader interpreter, pick Scheme over LISP. There are lots of implementations: siod, scm, mit-scheme, MzScheme, and tinyscheme are among the better ones. --Rick C. Petty, aka Snoopy rick@kiwi-computer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message