Originally posted here:
Initially, the folks participating are primarily either co-workers or non-co-worker friends who have wide range of experience and interests.
From my perspective, everyone is welcome.
The more interested, motivated participants the better!
I’ve been delighted by the number of folks that have showed up on the Internet either to participate or help. There are a lot of great people out there!
About three weeks ago I “made it official” and announced the Study-HTDP for any folks who may be interested. I figured that I would post both to the group itself, and mirror the interesting things here. It didn’t really work out that way.
Focusing on the work and not much else, I’ve posted exclusively to the group. Since we’re only two weeks into it, though, I’m going to make a change and post the most interesting content here. The reason is that I want to be sure to have a place to keep my notes and thoughts on things so that they don’t get totally lost in the overall group.
For my BarCampMadison2 presentation this year, I prepared a DVD “gift bag” with a lot of material on Functional Programming (FP) and specific FP languages like Scheme and Haskell, and also included DrScheme binaries for Mac and Windows and source for UNIX.
Yesterday I received an email from one of the attendees. He was copying the contents of the DVD to a directory on his UNIX system. In the course of doing so, he got an error message. If you are even superficially familiar with Monads and Haskell (as I am), you will surely find this error message prodigious!
/mnt/cdrom$ cp -R library ~/lisp-library
cp: cannot access `library/Haskell/Monads': Input/output error
See here.
Here is an article about a “position paper of sorts that Rich Hickey has posted on Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State”. (via LtU)
An article and discussion about DSLs and Perl linked here (via LtU).
Originally I figured that a lot of my thoughts would show up here, but they haven’t. Instead they get posted directly to the group. That said, here are some thoughts from the week:
Essence is a generator for LR(k) and SLR(k) parsers in Scheme.
The OLPC XO shall Give One Get One Program shall return!
Wonderful! I hope everyone takes the opportunity both to pick up and donate an XO here!
The prolific Schematics guys have released a Scheme build tool called Sake out on PLaneT.
Sake tasks are currently sparse, contributions are welcome.