Re: Lisp in embedded systems?

Stefan Arentz wrote: 
I'm looking for a new language/environment to do the next version of a
medium sized C++ application in. I'm interested in using a flavour of
Lisp because I think it will allow us to overcome some of C++'s issues.
(Development time, hard to debug, error prone).

However, this has to run on an embedded system. And I'm not sure if that
will work out with Lisp.

The device is small. It just has 2MB flash and 8MB ram. The application
really just needs the basics ... threads, sockets, simple data structures,
no storage and some bindings to C methods in a library.

Performance is not an issue. It just needs to do basic network io
once in a while and control some hardware features.

Am I crazy to even look at lisp here? Can anyone recommend a public (open
source) flavour that would work here? Anyone with real world experience?

The description of CLisp states that it only needs 4 MB RAM - see http://clisp.cons.org/summary.html

Another choice that seems reasonable is OpenLisp, an implementation of ISLISP which is more or less a subset of Common Lisp. See http://www.eligis.com/


I don't know whether other CL implementations could fit. There are probably a number of Scheme implementations which you could use as well.


Pascal

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