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2 points by sacado 6019 days ago | link | parent

mzscheme has a rather good C API. I was thinking about using it to generate C code for Arco that would less rely on mzscheme after each release, before both are totally independant.

However, after my last experiences, it is much harder than directly writing an Arc compiler generating C code, from scratch. I gave a pointer earlier : http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~boucherd/mslug/meetings/2004102... This might also be useful (that's where I got the link from ) : http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/sw/urscheme/.

I am currently working on the one at the first address. I translated it to Arc. In other words, I have a scheme compiler written in Arc that can hardly do anything but compile the fib function to C.

Pretty soon, I'll have something compiling a poor subset of Arc (only fixnums and symbols, no list, no bignum, no GC, no special syntax, but with closures and call/cc fully operational).