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-*- org -*-
Mes -- Maxwell Equations of Software
Mes aims to create an entirely source-based bootstrapping path. The
target is to [have GuixSD] boostrap from a minimal, easily inspectable
binary --that should be readable as source-- into something close to
R5RS Scheme.
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.
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
General Public Licence version 3 or later. See the file COPYING.
* Get it
git clone https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes
* Build it (see INSTALL for full instructions)
./configure
make all
make check
* REPL it
scripts/repl.mes
* Mescc compiler
scripts/mescc.mes doc/examples/main.c