From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 5 22:58:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp010.mail.yahoo.com (smtp010.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82EC637B405 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:58:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mkc-65-31-219-45.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.31.219.45) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Sep 2001 05:58:26 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3B971081.9080804@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 00:58:25 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Fanatic Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS References: <200109060553.f865rLE65613@KIWI-Computer.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 FreeBSD Fanatic wrote: >>>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 I still think that Scheme has far less proficient programmers than LISP. BTW: In LISP, *EVERYTHING* is data. LISP was executing data as code and writing self-replicating programs around 1951 or 1952. jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! -------------------------------------------- POWER TO THE PEOPLE! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message