[plt-scheme] Fwd: Google's Android Open Handset Alliance Project - $10M in prizes and my first Android app

Domain specific languages?

On Nov 16, 2007, at 11:23 AM, Noel Welsh wrote:

> On Nov 16, 2007 4:16 PM, Paulo J. Matos <pocm at soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>> How would you go about doing that? The interface is Java, afaik PLT
>> Scheme is not able to call Java yet, right?
>
> I just spent about 30 minutes looking around the Android site.  Here
> is what I found out:
>
>  - Android runs a custom VM called Dalvik
>  - Dalvik has not been released, though Google claims they will do so
> in the future
>  - Dalvik is a register based VM
>  - Google provides a tool to compile Java bytecode to Dalvik bytecode
>  - A read a post suggesting that Dalvik bytecode is just Java bytecode
> that is reorganised to reduce memory usage
>
> Therefore, the route to getting Scheme code onto Android is to compile
> to Java bytecode.
>
> N.
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