Re: Could somebody use SCSH, Sheme, or Lisp to create the "Lispm" architecture.

[Paul Wallich <pw@panix.com>]

In article <m3of3mi6r4.fsf@pcpenn04.cern.ch>,
 Ole Myren Rohne <ole.rohne@fys.uio.no> wrote:

> Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu> writes:
> 
> > Once you have chosen your Hardware Design Language (VHDL, Verilog or
> > one you have implemented from scratch in CL) you can start writing the
> > "Symbolics type CPU".
> 
> That's cheating! He needs to start defining a lisp-based HDL;-)

Most of the early public geometry-description languages more or less 
took s-expressions, so that's a start. (I  can't remember whose silicon 
compiler it was that took Lisp code that implemented simple algorithms 
and ran it through a series of code transformations that ended up 
emitting piles of properly placed rectangles. It was useless, but very 
sweet to look at.)

paul