ditaa is a small command-line utility written in Java, that can convert diagrams drawn using ascii art ('drawings' that contain characters that resemble lines like | / - ), into proper bitmap graphics.
Fairly detailed description of a GPS receiver using 1-bit quantisation, down-conversion, despreading and tracking in an FPGA. The tracking loops are implemented in firmware on a custom Forth-based processor (in the same FPGA), the navigation solution is computed in a Raspberry π (http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3916).
It translates a subset of Common Lisp to Javascript
+ bignum arithmetic
- no SQRT, SIN, ATAN, FORMAT, APROPOS
- #x and #.r upset the reader
See also the author's blog http://davazp.net/2013/01/04/lisp-to-javascript.html