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From: markha@microsoft.UUCP (Mark HAHN)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: what makes scheme?
Message-ID: <56613@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 90 05:59:17 GMT
Reply-To: markha@microsoft.UUCP (Mark HAHN)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <.650536187@dutepp1> alfred@dutepp1.tudelft.nl (Alfred Kayser) writes:
>>Platforms?
>> * VAX/VMS * VAX UNIX * SUN-3 * SUN-4 * AMIGA * MACINTOSH * MIPS * CRAY
>I've once tryed to port it to MSDOS or OS2 (compiler and cpu are the same)
>but it crashed enormously. The code was too unreadable to be debugged.
>Keep in mind that it was started from a 'joke'. SIOD stands for
>Scheme In One Defun. Thus a scheme interpreter in Lisp, which was ported to
>C somewhere between 1.0 and 2.4.

SIOD (1.3 or 2.4) runs just fine under os2.  
the only change I had to make
was to disable the signal stuff, 
because my std libs were flaky.
(I was compiling it 32-bit flat for os/2 2.0, 
which is some distance away from release.)
I thought the source formatting was strange, too,
but a quick pass through cb solves all that...

Besides, lisp itself was originally a joke,
or at least not a seriously intended programming language.

For reference, my copies of xlisp, 
xscheme and elk weigh in at 5-6K locs,
while siod 1.3 is 980, and siod 2.4 is 1715.

regards,
-- 
Mark Hahn         microsoft!markha@uunet.uu.net         uunet!microsoft!markha
YES, Bill Gates IS my personal savior, and I CHANNEL for him in CLEAR WEATHER.