…((myself :lesser-programmer)… ; Small footprint lisps

I was yesterday evening asked if a lisp could also be used on some smallish microcontroller (something like a PIC). I answered yes before my collegue even finished talking, as on c.l.l. just recently such a discussion has taken place.

Matt Knox wrote a short list of small footprint lisps, which is indeed helpful. Of course after very short googling you find PICBIT, and SIOD and its new replacement (?) for GIMP tinyscheme are easily found. PICBIT does not seem to be easily available in source form, and if I understood that paper correctly, its goal is not to provide some native optimizing compiler for scheme on PIC microcontroller. Though I remember someone posted a short script of his lisp-like dataflow programming language for microcontrollers, which I practically forgot to bookmark.

But since resources are scarce, deeper research or implementation won't happen now, I think.