X-Git-Url: https://thelambdalab.xyz/gitweb/index.cgi?p=scheme.forth.jl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=7551d57cf7083846762c6068c603c56ac582b707;hp=3c4940d7350c6e5282a52c496035033abeae0e4e;hb=HEAD;hpb=77a4731ae13761d4817d5cc8af5a74d7d54cb4d7 diff --git a/README.md b/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index 3c4940d..0000000 --- a/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -scheme.forth.jl ---------------- - -A hobby Scheme interpreter for FORTH 83. Specifically it is targeted at -[forth.jl](http://github.com/tgvaughan/forth.jl) which is an implementation of -FORTH on top of [Julia](http://www.julialang.org), hence the name. It began -life as a fairly direct port of Peter Micheaux's [Bootstrap -Scheme](https://github.com/petermichaux/bootstrap-scheme) (as described in -[this wonderful series of blog -posts](http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introduction)) from -C to forth, but also includes a basic mark-sweep garbage collector. - -In future, I plan to also implement a macro system and a more -complete numerical tower to bring it closer to -[R5RS](http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/). - -The goal is for the interpreter to be complete enough to be used to complete -the majority of the exercises found in [SICP](http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/). - -This software is free (as in freedom) and is distributed under the terms -of version 3 of the GNU General Public License. A copy of this license -is included in this repository in the file COPYING.