[libre-riscv-dev] Introducing Myself

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Wed, Jun 5, 2019, 12:29 Tobias Platen <hacks2019 at platen-software.de>
wrote:

> Hello list
>
welcome!

>
> I have been reading this list since early 2019. I am a backer of the
> EOMA68 Crowdsupply campaign working on a port of GNU GUIX to the Libre
> Tea Computer Card in my spare time.
>
> While studiying at the University of Applied Sciences in Giessen,
> Germany I implemented a small processor and a graphical display on an
> FPGA. My Bachelor thesis was
> about implementing a cache for that processor.

neat!

> While working on that
> project I was reading the book Computer Architecture: a Quantitative
> Approach by David Patterson and John Hennessy.
>
I have that book somewhere, I read it several times a few years ago, then
it mysteriously hid somewhere during a move. I hear they made a new edition
based on RISC-V!

>
> While working towards my Master thesis I learned Python, which is now
> one of my preferred programming languages.
> I also learned how to program in functional languages, including Scala
>
More evidence that Scala's not that hard :)

> and Lisp at that time.
>
Hope you didn't wear out your parenthesis keys :)

Jacob Lifshay