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Devine Lu Linvega@wim_v12e 🙌 almost closed the loop
@neauoire Not quite, as the whole thing is written in Perl, and I don't plan on creating a Perl-to-Uxntal compiler.
But I am working slowly towards my goal of having Funktal native. I am now going on a detour into optimisation, just for the hell of it, but when I'm back I will tackle paging. That will allow me to handle more than 64K, which is essential because the Funktal compiler bytecode is too large.
@neauoire I feel like I am really going against the grain here, because Fortran is at the opposite end of the language spectrum from catlangs, lisps etc. But I love the idea of running this very old language on Uxn. It was developed when hardware had similar specs. I'm using a more modern version (essentially Fortran-90), but that is only because I like it better than Fortran-77. In fact, despite its shortcomings, I rather like it.
@wim_v12e I think it's cool that you're trying to bridge that gap, it must give you a pretty deep understanding of Fortran, the next step after that is.. basically Fortran to NAND gates.
@neauoire Fortran to FPGA, I've done that already ^_^ It's easier than you might think though: there is a well developed approach to turn C-style code into circuit descriptions. All you have to do is go from Fortran to a restricted subset of C and you can use such a toolchain. The hard part is to exploit the parallelism.