A C compiler in LISP, a LISP in C, and the subject that changed my life
In 1986 I took Compiler Techniques under Bruce Ellis and wrote a C compiler in LISP. I have got it running again, on hardware that did not exist when I wrote it.
Compilers
2 articles and 1 project.
Writing
Rubato: A Music Input and Performance System
My 1987 honours thesis at the University of Sydney. A language for writing music down that reads like music rather than like code, and a system that performs it.
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Projects
lisp-cc
The C compiler I wrote in LISP for Bruce Ellis's Compiler Techniques subject at Sydney, recovered and grown into a full K&R 1978 compiler that emits arm64 instead of VAX. Ships with a reconstruction of the LISP interpreter it was marked against and the 1979 Seventh Edition C library, so the whole thing still bootstraps itself to a byte-identical fixed point.
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