The Pioneer plaques are a pair of gold-anodized aluminium plaques which were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 spacecraft, featuring a pictorial message, in case either Pioneer 10 or 11 are intercepted by extraterrestrial life. The plaques show the nude figures of a human male and female along with several [...]
Here is the link; the source has a lot more. (via comp.lang.scheme)
Sagittarius Scheme System is a “mostly R6RS Scheme system”. (via scheme-reports)
Whalesong is a compiler from Racket to JavaScript; it takes Racket programs and translates them so that they can run stand-alone on a user’s web browser. It should allow Racket programs to run with (hopefully!) little modification, and provide access through the foreign-function interface to native JavaScript APIs. The included runtime library supports the numeric [...]
Check out this one-of-a-kind motorcycle here and here. Made right in our backyard. (via milvinmoto)
This thread discusses the pros and cons of using the CA*D*R functions vs named first, second, third, list-tail, … and so on vs pattern matching for the same task. I thought that pattern-matching was the best way to do it; and now I’m curious about why CA*D*R is better.
The following all intend to support R7RS small: * Per Bothner (Kawa) * Will Clinger (Larceny) * Shiro Kawai (Gauche) * Manuel Serrano (Bigloo) – “not sure about libraries” * Alex Shinn (Chibi) – “already fully implemented, but lacking tests” * Felix Winkelmann (Chicken) The following were less committal, but open, and their implementations are [...]
If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. Need to generate a man page from a markdown file? No problem. LaTeX to Docbook? Sure. HTML to MediaWiki? Yes, that too. Pandoc can read markdown and (subsets of) reStructuredText, textile, HTML, and LaTeX, and it can write [...]
Here. Basically it is finished. Can’t wait for WG2 to get started. (via scheme-reports)
SchemaSpy is a Java-based tool that analyzes the metadata of a schema in a database and generates a visual representation of it in a browser-displayable format. It lets you click through the hierarchy of database tables via child and parent table relationships as represented by both HTML links and entity-relationship diagrams. It’s also designed to [...]