From 62eab78f621e550f827114d3d540cc887f0ceb38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 07:14:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README. * README: Add a paragraph with current status. --- README | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README b/README index d551d45b..3e741359 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -10,10 +10,16 @@ As bootstrapping is presumably easiest and probably most fun with Scheme, the next step for Mes is mescc: a C compiler/linker to boostrap into GNU Gcc and GNU Guile, possibly via Tiny-CC. +It currently has an interpreter written in C (mes) with Garbage +Collector (Jam Scraper), a library of loadable Scheme modules with +test suite just barely enough to support a simple REPL (repl.mes) and +a proof-of-concept c-compiler (mescc.mes) that produces an elf from +the simplest of C files. + Mes is inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: [[http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf][LISP-1.5]] -- John McCarthy page 13. -Mes is free software, it is distributed unde the terms of the GNU +Mes is free software, it is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence version 3 or later. See the file COPYING. * Get it