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This is a great idea.

To keep a standard subset for lightweight implementations (which are better suited for embedded systems, or for being embedded as a scripting language). How cool is this?

Edit: not to mention that a greater portability among the full featured implementations would be even more cool.

I'm so happy to see Scheme alive and kicking.

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I'm currently planning out a project that involves building a OSC controller using an ARM chip. I hope I will be able to use scheme to write the firmware for the device, that would be swell (and much more fun than using ASM).

How do you like Lua?

I have very little experience programming so i figured an embedded system would give me a good "ground up" approach to learning some programming. I've heard good things about lua, i was considering ADA (rock solid stability is key for this project) or smalltalk. I'm still in the planning stages of everything involving this project and infact i'm going to build a midibox first to get familiar with embedded systems and circuit design. Some people have made some impressive controllers, and synths with the project.

http://www.midibox.org/ http://www.ucapps.de/

Oh, well, you should try some stuff before you make up your mind, then. Ada and Smalltalk couldn't be much more different.

Check out this: http://arcfn.com/2009/08/arc-arduino-arm-temperature-monitor...

The guy is running an Arc (pg's Lisp, currently implemented in mzscheme) web server on his Arm-based SheevaPlug.

Pre-scheme.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PreScheme

I experimented with other languages/things before for embedded programming. I think forth would be great if it worked the way my brain does. Otherwise, there are good reasons everybody uses C.

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