-*- org -*-
Mes -- Maxwell Equations of Software
-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.
-
-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.
-
-It currently has an interpreter written in C (mes) with Garbage
-Collector (Jam Scraper), a library of loadable Scheme modules with
-test suite just barely enough to support a simple REPL (repl.mes) and
-a proof-of-concept c-compiler (mescc.mes) that produces an elf from
-the simplest of C files.
-
-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.
+[[https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes][Mes]] aims to create full source bootstrapping for [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guix][GuixSD]] as part of the
+[[http://bootstrappable.org][bootstrappable builds]] effort.
+
+It currently consists of a mutual self-hosting [close to Guile-]
+Scheme interpreter prototype in C and a Nyacc-based C compiler in
+[Guile] Scheme. This C prototype will be rewritten in [[https://github.com/oriansj/stage0][stage0]] M1
+assembly (or possibly stage2 slow-LISP, or ...).
+
+The Scheme interpreter prototype (mes.c) has a Garbage Collector, a
+library of loadable Scheme modules-- notably Dominique Boucher's [[https://github.com/schemeway/lalr-scm][LALR]],
+Pre-R6RS [[https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html][portable syntax-case]] with R7RS ellipsis, Matt Wette's [[https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc][Nyacc]],
+Guile's [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html][PEG]] --and test suite just barely enough to support a simple
+REPL (repl.mes) and simple C-compiler MesCC (mescc.mes).
+
+MesCC can compile a [[https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc][modified TinyCC]] that is close to being
+self-hosting. A GNU Ccc-compiled tcc is [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2017-05/msg00103.html][known]] to compile GCC.
+
+Mes is inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: [[http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%2525201.5%252520Programmers%252520Manual.pdf][LISP-1.5]] -- John
+McCarthy page 13, GNU Guix's source/binary packaging transparency and
+Jeremiah Orians's stage0 ~300 byte self-hosting hex assembler.
+
+[0] https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes
+[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix
+[2] http://bootstrappable.org
+[3] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0
+[4] https://github.com/schemeway/lalr-scm
+[5] https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html
+[6] https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc
+[7] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html
+[8] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc
+[9] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2017-05/msg00103.html
+[10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf
Mes is free software, it is distributed under the terms of the GNU
General Public Licence version 3 or later. See the file COPYING.
scripts/repl.mes
-* Mescc compiler
+* MesCC compiler
- scripts/mescc.mes doc/examples/main.c > a.out
+ scripts/mescc.mes scaffold/main.c > a.out
-* Other
-
- make check
- make guile-check
- make mes-check
- make paren
- make mescc
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