Göran wrote:
> > Presumably, to access hardware devices, I'll have to add 
> > new primitives to the language (I've seen a document 
> > somewhere which describes this).
> 
> That would be plugins I think. Primitives can of course be added too,
> but plugins are better. I think they have been called "named 
> primitives" too. Not really my area but there are plenty of plugins 
> around to study. Search the swiki and the mailinglist.

In other programs plugins refer to some type of loadable module, typically
wrapped up in a DLL. Is this similar? Anyways, most embedded systems (that
I've worked) on don't have a file system, so loading anything from disk is
out.

Dave Hylands