Re: good papers on graphics in scheme/lisp?

[Blake Shaw]

<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 12:34:32PM -0500, Olivier Dion via General
> Guile related discussions wrote:
>> On Wed, 02 Mar 2022, Blake Shaw <blake@nonconstructivism.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> > Also, one last thing, I'm considering attempting to create a DSL that
>> > compiles to a subset of GLSL like Chicken's GLLS library[4], as I'm
>> > becoming more and more interested in compilation. I remember reading
>> > somewhere about a Guile library that allows you to write C in Guile,
>> 
>> I think you are refering to
>> <http://sph.mn/computer/guides/c/c-indent.html>.
>> 
>> There's also <https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc/> that can be helpful if
>> you're familiar with LALR(1) parsers.
>
> Actually NYACC comes with a pretty complete C99 compiler [1], which is
> used to generate FFI bindings. So perhaps using that as a stepping stone
> towards GLSL doesn't sound that crazy...
>
> Cheers
>
> [1] https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc/nyacc-c99-ug.html
oh wow i didn't see that it ships with a c99 parser, I have only touched
the FFI helper -- thanks for pointing me here, this is a massive leg up.

sounding less and less crazy by the minute :)

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