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Re: on bootstrapping: first Mes 0.3 released
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen |
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Re: on bootstrapping: first Mes 0.3 released |
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Tue, 20 Dec 2016 08:58:27 +0100 |
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Christopher Allan Webber writes:
> First, I'm really excited you're making progress on Mes!
Yay, thanks!
> Second, Scheme48 did something similar to this, called "Pre-Scheme",
> which is how they bootstrapped Scheme48 iirc. Have you heard of it or
> looked at it?
Ah, that's nice.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PreScheme
Yes, that helps. I looked briefly at Scheme48 but could not make
much of it. This helps a lot. Amazing trick. It's not enough
if we want to bootstrap from source only, but it could help.
Greetings, Jan
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