Fred Martin wrote to the PLT Discussion List that:
You may have noticed a number of emails from my students at UMass Lowell. I had assigned a final project in our required “Organization of Programming Languages” course which is based on the SICP text. This is the first time that the course included a [...]
During the 1950s and 1960s there was a flourishing of interest in special-purpose computer languages. SNOBOL [String Oriented Symbolic Language] was one of a number of text-string-oriented languages…
SNOBOL was widely used in the 1970s and 1980s as a text manipulation language in the humanities, but in recent years, its popularity has faded as newer languages [...]
Ben provides a FFI with Tcl example using PLT Scheme.
A program is one or more functions that work together.
– Stephen Bloch
(via PLT)
I had always wondered if it was .NET alone that had inspired Sun to add generics to Java. Perhaps, as you will see here, there was a little more to the story!
On slide 24 I mention Philip Wadler and Martin Odersky. At this point in the talk I repeated an anecdote that Wadler told me. [...]
This library provides a wrapper interface to gnuplot. Using the library, mzscheme programs can spawn inferior gnuplot processes and plot data to windows or hardcopy with a programmatic interface.
(via PLT Scheme Blog)
Here is an article discussing 12 principles for keeping your HTML code clean.
It was recommended by one of my web-development-expert co-workers, and that is more than good enough for me.
Scwm is the Scheme Constraints/Configurable Window Manager. It is a window manager with a powerful dynamic configuration language based on Guile Scheme. Scwm has many, many advanced features, often implemented in the configuration language itself.