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Paolo Amoroso
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space  ·  activity timestamp 12 hours ago

When I had a Palm III I used extensively LispMe, a Scheme development environment for Palm OS. It was quite capable, supported GUI primitives, and I had lots of fun writing several programs including a bytecode disassembler.

In this paper the developer described the implementation and architecture of LispMe, which did a lot with the limited resources of the device:

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=62b505a67fdaf3f9bc0212536b65ac26aaedabd1

The LispMe project site:

http://www.lispme.de/lispme/index_en.html

#scheme #lisp #PalmOS

LispMe home page

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✨phred🧙🏼‍♂️
✨phred🧙🏼‍♂️
@phred@weirder.earth replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@amoroso I did my CS homework (a little metaprogramming in Scheme) with LispMe on my Handspring! It was a transformative experience.

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MattoF
MattoF
@mattof@functional.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@amoroso Oh wow! Will try to install it on my Palm TX :)

Thanx for your pointer!

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Paolo Amoroso
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@mattof You're welcome. It's a nice little system that already made possible coding on the go a couple of decades ago.

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Felix
Felix
@felix@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@amoroso The mind-blowing thing is that the site still exists.

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Paolo Amoroso
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@felix And the site still provides great documentation that gets you up to speed with the system.

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