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The Pre-Scheme Restoration
Announcing the Pre-Scheme Restorationby Andrew Whatson — Thu 20 June 2024 I'm thrilled to announce that the Pre-Scheme Restoration project is now underway, thanks to a generous grant from the NLnet foundation under the NGI Zero Core program. This project is primarily an exercise in software archaeology, bringing an obscure yet important compiler to a wider audience, and using it as the basis for a modern, statically-typed, low-level functional programming language.
This project is primarily an exercise in software archaeology, bringing an obscure yet important compiler to a wider audience, and using it as the basis for a modern, statically-typed, low-level functional programming language. The team at the Spritely Institute built an impressive entry called Cirkoban, which serves as a tech demo for their work in porting the Goblins distributed programming environment to Hoot, a Scheme to WebAssembly compiler. Another reason is that the language and compiler interface weren't fully documented until the mid 2000s, when Taylor Campbell wrote"The Nearly Complete Scheme48 Reference Manual" with a detailed description of Pre-Scheme tucked away in Chapter 9.
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