+ -*- org -*-
Mes -- Maxwell Equations of Software
-Mes is inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software -- John McCarthy page 13
-http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf
+Mes aims to create an entirely source-based bootstrapping path. The
+target is to [have GuixSD] boostrap from a minimal, easily inspectable
+binary --that should be readable as source-- into something close to
+R6RS Scheme.
-Its aim is to have GuixSD boostrap from a minimal trusted binary into
-Scheme. The strategy is to use OrianJs self-hosting hex assembler to
-write a minimal LISP called MES to bootstrap a full fledged Scheme,
-written in MES.
+As bootstrapping is presumably easiest and probably most fun with
+Scheme, the next step for Mes is mescc: a C compiler/linker to
+boostrap into GNU Gcc and GNU Guile, possibly via Tiny-CC.
+
+Mes is inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: [[http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf][LISP-1.5]] -- John
+McCarthy page 13.
Mes is free software, it is distributed unde the terms of the GNU
General Public Licence version 3 or later. See the file COPYING.
+
+* Get it
+
+ git clone https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes
+
+* Build it (see INSTALL for full instructions)
+
+ ./configure
+ make all
+ make check
+
+* REPL it
+
+ scripts/repl.mes
+
+* Mescc compiler
+
+ scripts/mescc.mes doc/examples/main.c
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