In this post on the PLT discussion list I asked:
What is all the fuss about how you can write DSLs in Lisp?
Everyone from thought-leaders to blog-posters to grandma’s are talking
about how Lisp is so great for DSLs.
About what are these people talking about? Because no one of said
people actually elaborate on any of this, of [...]
Comments on the superiority of Perl and Tcl over Scheme.
(via jrm
Evil is a C++ to Scheme compiler.
(via jrm)
Sherman is a Rebol to Scheme compiler.
(via jrm)
[The Warp Speed Introduction to CLOS] is an extremely short overview of the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS). Newcomers to CLOS are often intimidated by its apparent complexity and possibly confused by its unusual approach. For a long time I considered CLOS to be “too hairy”, but after working on a large project that made [...]
In the PLT discussion list thread titled “How to handle large data”, Kenichi wanted to load a very large file into DrScheme, 120,000 lines long, and it was hanging. Noel explained that because of debugging and performance instrumentation, DrScheme adds a lot of overhead, and that MzScheme could load the file just fine. Eli [...]
I’ve been investigating books on fractals. The Pattern Book: Fractals, Art, and Nature looks pretty good.
I am interested in studying and implementing them.
Can you recommend any?
Addendum: 01/03/09
“The Fish and Chips Book” was recommended.
“Really immutable pairs” was a thread in comp.lang.scheme from last year. It is worth a read for anyone interested in language design issues, and where Scheme may or may not be headed (who knows?).
A friend of mine once mentioned “Oleg’s prolific Scheme code” but didn’t go any deeper than that.
Today I think I found that code here.
It is not limited to Scheme, but for Scheme content alone there seems to be a ton of (per my friend) high quality code there.
I can’t wait to start digging.
All Scheme Search is a Google based search engine for “Everything about the Scheme Programming Language”.
If seven pages of search results for “keyword arguments” is any measure, this looks pretty interesting :).
Addendum: 01/05/08
Here are two more: Scheme from the Florida Keys (actively updated) and Search PLT Scheme (not actively updated).