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# share-your-worke
Eli Mellen
02/25/2025, 11:29 PMHere is a little screen recording of me walking through parts of a very impractical project I started a while ago.
It is incredibly impractical, but I’m implementing scheme using awk.
Eli Mellen
02/25/2025, 11:30 PMRight now I’ve got
• A stack-based VM that reads in bespoke ASM and can execute it
• A compiler that takes in scheme forms and outputs ASM for my VM
• Some simple bash scripts to route stuff round the various bits
The VM and the compiler are totally implemented in awk. Doing stuff in memory with awk is painful, so I persist stateful stuff, like the environment, and the code to be executed, etc. on disk in tmp text files that the compiler manages.
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Kartik Agaram
02/26/2025, 12:45 AM
• What hoops are you jumping through to run Acme?
• Have you done a lot of stuff outside of html+js? I've only seen f.awk and this. Cool!
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Eli Mellen
02/26/2025, 12:54 AM• acme is a breeze to run with plan9port
• I guess I’m technically a full stack dev? I’ve worked on front end web, backend (java and ruby and php), and both iOS and android…and then just enjoy playing around with a bunch of languages
Eli Mellen
02/26/2025, 12:54 AMJS is defo where I’m most cozy, though
Eli Mellen
02/26/2025, 2:28 PM@Kartik Agaram hit me up if you have questions about plan9port. It’s fun.
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Federico Pereiro
02/28/2025, 10:00 PMIt is incredibly impractical, but I’m implementing scheme using awk.I love the spirit.
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