Shen/Kl arrive
The first publicly available version of Shen/Kl has been released.
The Shen mission is to develop an ultra-portable version of Qi that can run under a wide variety of platforms and which incorporates missing features in Qi such as streams. The targeted platforms are CL, Clojure, NewLisp, Emacs Lisp, ECL, Scheme, Javascript and Python as well as C/C++, DVM, CLR or the JVM. This approach involved rewriting and redesigning Qi to fit within the smallest feasible instruction set.
Kl is intentionally a small ‘Lisp assembly language’ that enables Qi to be built on top of it.