How small does it have to be? Chibi Scheme does syntax-rules in 174 lines of Scheme, layered over explicit renaming. Indeed, Chibi does essentially all of R5RS in 4822 lines of C + 708 lines of Scheme.
— John Cowan
Scheme 9 from Empty Space is also very small from what Nils said.
(via this thread in r6rs-discuss, I have the email but can not find the archive of it)
Here is a post where Jordan explains what he wants to accomplish in the DrScheme IDE; basically he wants to be able to customize code in the IDE by annotating it, allow the annotations to be displayed only, while having the code run in mzscheme as expected.
Here is a screencast that he made which demonstrates his goal.
Very interesting!
(via plt)
Here is a good talk by Dan Weinreb about enterprise software, Lisp, and Scheme. Here are some parts that I found interesting:
Still wondering why only five people showed up for this talk (excluding Norvig).
(via tc-lispers)
I’ve started working on a package manager implementation, dubbed “dorodango”[0]. I post this as a feedback request, not because there’s working code to show yet.
dorodango is/will (ATM) be based upon these concepts, which I hereby put up for discussion:
Read the rest here.
[W]e hope to do the following:
* Make mobile application development accessible to anyone.
* Enhance introductory learning experiences in computing through the vehicle of Android’s open platform.
* Encourage a community of faculty and students to share material and ideas for teaching and exploring.
Part of our development environment is a visual programming language similar to Scratch. The visual language provides a drag-and-drop interface for assembling procedures and event handlers that manipulate high-level components of Android-based phones.
We parse the visual programming language into an S-expression intermediate language, which is a domain-specific language expressed as a set of Scheme macros, along with a Scheme runtime library.
HtmlPrag finally works with PLT 4.x.
http://www.neilvandyke.org/htmlprag/
(via PLT)
While I’ve never used it, most of the folks recommended this as the best tool for HTML generation and parsing.
For the longest time it had not run on 4.x and people have been frequently asking when it will. Thanks Neil!
A R6RS conformant Chez Scheme 7.4D and TSPL4 now available.
Surprised?! I was. I hadn’t heard anything either. Anywhere. From anyone.
Yesterday though, I saw Aaron (dedicated Chez user) posting about R6RS ports here and Eduardo mentioned TSPL4’s availability here here.
Addendum: 08/04/09
The TSPL4 link is broken, but was not at the time of posting. Since the hardcopy hasn’t been released yet, I suspect that the link will be down until the hard copy is released.
Addendum: 08/08/09
The link is back up.
FWIW: I didn’t think it was worth bothering Kent by asking about why it was down in the first place.
