-*- 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 R6RS 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 > a.out * Other make check make guile-check make mes-check make paren make mescc