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Mes -- Maxwell Equations of Software
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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.
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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.
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Mes is free software, it is distributed unde the terms of the GNU
General Public Licence version 3 or later. See the file COPYING.
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* Get it
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git clone https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes
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* Build it (see INSTALL for full instructions)
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./configure
make all
make check
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* REPL it
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scripts/repl.mes
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* Mescc compiler
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scripts/mescc.mes doc/examples/main.c
