Re: on bootstrapping: first Mes 0.3 released

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes:

> The current interpeter I consider to be a prototype in C; I use gcc.
> However, HACKING mentions two ways forward
>
>     ** Move mes.c into hex?
>     One idea is to use OrianJ's amazing self-hosting
>     [[https://github.com/oriansj/stage0][stage0]] hex assembler and
>     minimal bootstrap binaries and rewrite the mes.c core to directly
>     bootstrap into Scheme.
>
>     ** Rewrite mes.c and generate hex?
>     Another idea (thanks Rutger!) is to rewrite the mes.c core in a
>     C/Assembly variant and have mescc produce the simple, annotated
>     bootstrap binary.
>
> Possibly you have an even better idea?  I am choosing to explore the
> latter first: work on the compiler backend and write the interpreter in
> its Assembly/C-like s-expressions.

First, I'm really excited you're making progress on Mes!

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?

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PreScheme