On: A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]

[chriswarbo]

Viewpoints Research Institute (VPRI) tried to make such a system around 10 years ago http://www.vpri.org (e.g. http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf )

IIRC it bootstraps from a prescheme-like language into a Smalltalk-like dynamic language ( https://www.piumarta.com/software/maru https://www.piumarta.com/software/cola ), and uses PEG parsers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMeta ) to implement domain-specific languages, e.g. the Nile graphics language ( https://github.com/damelang/nile )

[eterps → chriswarbo]

Thanks, I am aware of the research at VPRI. However nothing coherent seems to have come out of it. Yet I am running a complete Oberon system on my laptop as we speak. And all source and documentation is available at http://www.projectoberon.com I really liked the idea though.

[scroot → eterps]

I really wish he would release the updated Oberon book in another format besides PDF.