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<mark_weaver>rekado: the atmega is very limited. A beaglebone black would allow you to run GNU/Linux, Guile, etc. The Raspberry Pi is fatally flawed, see https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers.
<mark_weaver>sneek: later tell cluck: The Raspberry Pi is fatally flawed from a perspective of software freedom, see <https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers>. Also, Guile works just fine on ARM, in fact the bot that just delivered this message to you is Guile running on ARM (beaglebone black). Please don't spread misinformation.
<sneek>Will do.
<stis>Hej guilers!
<rekado>mark_weaver: I know that the Atmega has serious limitations; that's one of the primary reasons why I like it.
<rekado>I don't want to run Scheme (or an OS for that matter) on the device. But I wished there was a more accessible language that could be compiled to run on the chip.
<rekado>I don't really feel like teaching him C and all its gotchas.
<rekado>What's great about the Atmega is how very simple it is; it needs only a very simple mental model to fully understand how it works.
<rekado>Maybe I can write a very simple Scheme-inspired language in Guile that is transformed into AVR assembly instructions.
<alandipert>rekado: amforth perhaps? i haven’t tried it but it looks really cool, http://amforth.sourceforge.net/
<alandipert>btw hi all! checking out guile after reading andy wingo’s blog post about new register vm
<ArneBab>mark_weaver: thank you for the link on RPi! that’s much worse than I thought…
<rekado>I just found this: https://github.com/stamourv/picobit -- and here's the paper: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley/papers/sw03.pdf (called PICBIT then)
***rlb` is now known as rlb
<wingo>my jpeg encoder works now!
<ijp>excitin