Re: What are the domains that lisp doesn't fit int?

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:48:55 +0000 (UTC), Pierre THIERRY
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Le Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:46:05 -0500, Dan Bensen a écrit:
What are ... domains where lisp doesn't fit in?
Drivers: close to the metal.
Embedding: Poor memory resources.

Well, maybe you should read "Program Mobile Robots in Scheme", by
Jonathan Rees and Bruce Donald.

They used Scheme (they based their work on the scheme48 implementation)
to program robots, not close to the metal but on the bare metal, AFAIK,
and with "scarce on-board resources", to cite the paper.

Technically they used PreScheme which is a statically typed dialect
with dynamic allocation but no GC. Additionally it compiles into C
which requires minimal bootstrap support to get running on metal.

George
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