DrSync is a plugin that saves your files on frame deactivation and reverts them on frame activation. This tool is of particular interest to folks who run external programs like version control or build related tools on files which they are editing inside of DrScheme.
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Give credit where it is due
You should always give credit where it it due, especially when it is due to you!
Here is a good example of the practice.
Dynamic video game development
What would you do if you could use your favorite scripting language to dynamically call in to all sorts of libraries and frameworks native to your operating system?
This is probably very possible with your favorite scripting language; but is it is fun as hearing about doing so to write video games in Lisp?
Looping in Scheme
Not all loops in Scheme are created equally!
Jose Ortega captures a few perspectives on iteration in Scheme in his post, Scheme Loops.
Purely Functional Data Structures
In a thoughtful post on his blog, Chris Okasaki reflects back on his seminal contribution to the study of purely functional data structures.
Visualizing Lisp without parentheses
Michael Weber had the inspiration to imagine how might one visualize Lisp without parentheses in his mwe-color-box.el extension to Emacs.
Below is a screenshot from Michael’s page. More of Michael’s Emacs Hackery is available here.
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Low Exposure: TinyScheme
Have you ever heard of TinyScheme?
TinyScheme is a lightweight Scheme interpreter that implements as large a subset of R5RS as was possible without getting very large and complicated. It is meant to be used as an embedded scripting interpreter for other programs.
Why you might want to learn FORTH
You may or may have not heard about the programming language Forth, but if you have heard about it, you are very likely to have heard about it from some very happy, passionate Forth developers!
The best advocacy/introduction/tutorial I’ve ever read about Forth is located in the beginning of source code for this Forth interpreter!
After reading this, it is hard not to get excited about the programming language Forth.
GTK-server
GTK-server is another way to write portable GUIs with your favorite programming language.
The GTK-server is a free, open-source project, which offers a stream-oriented interface to the GTK libraries, enabling access to graphical user interfaces for shellscripts and interpreted programming languages using either GTK 1.x or 2.x.
Low Exposure: librep
Have you ever heard of librep?
librep is a dialect of Lisp, designed to be used both as an extension language for applications, and for use as a general programming language. It was originally written to be mostly-compatible with Emacs Lisp, but has subsequently diverged markedly. Its aim is to combine the best features of Scheme and Common Lisp and provide an environment that is comfortable for implementing both small and large scale systems. It tries to be a “pragmatic” programming language.