Re:Design of Lisp-based Processors (1979)
by stcredzero on Monday February 18, 2013 @11:16AM
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> I thought Lisp machines were about enabling a programmer to code in a language that's high level enough to do powerful things, but in the same time that can access to all the low levels components of the machine
You can do this already without specialized hardware. People have been using the RPython trick to enable 'low level' programming in something like a high level language. (Squeak Smalltalk, Rubinius, PyPy) There was recently a post about using Lua for device drivers. If you make the VM model quite simple, many high level languages are flexible enough to serve as low level ones.
You can do this already without specialized hardware. People have been using the RPython trick to enable 'low level' programming in something like a high level language. (Squeak Smalltalk, Rubinius, PyPy) There was recently a post about using Lua for device drivers. If you make the VM model quite simple, many high level languages are flexible enough to serve as low level ones.