[Gardeners] Lisp running on a microprocessor

[Pascal Bourguignon]

sathya gnanasekaran writes:
> I'm new here. Hi!
> 
> I was wondering whether anyone has heard of or seen a lisp that runs on a
> microprocessor like pic or something. I'm curious because I may want to
> implement it myself if it hasn't been done already. (Do you think it would
> be useful, or that people would enjoy it?)

Movitz is an implementation of Common Lisp that runs on a microprocessor.
More like ix86 than pic, but that's only a detail.


However, the question for a PIC is perhaps the limited resources, like
RAM?  Perhaps you can't put a whole CL implementation?  Do you need a
whole development environment on the PIC?  Perhaps you could use a
Common Lisp implementation on a workstation, and use it to write and
debug the PIC program, and cross-compile the PIC code from the
workstation?  If you want a lisp processor on the PIC, with limited
memory, you can implement a simplier lisp, perhaps scheme, or your own
small lisp.  A few KB are all is needed to have something recognizable
as lisp.


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