This interview with Charles H. Moore is a great read. I think it behooves new programmers to sample all the languages available. Forth is the only one that’s fun. The satisfaction of finding a neat representation cannot be equaled in Fortran, C or even Lisp. Well clearly he hasn’t tried out Scheme :) (via Dave)
Why Computer Science Doesn’t Matter is an essay about the lack of computer science in the educational curriculum today, and what can be done about it. They’ve come up with an interesting, and successful, approach. [I want] to place computing where it belongs: in the hearts and minds of every single student. Here here!
Eli released a library to facilitate interactive debugging in PLT Scheme. ADDENDUM:11/15/11 Corrected the linked file name.
DEFUN 2008 invites functional programmers who know how to solve problems with functional progamming to give talks and lead tutorials at the The ICFP Developer Tracks. We want to know about your favorite programming techniques, powerful libraries, and engineering approaches you’ve used that the world should know about and apply to other projects. We want [...]
Check out this list of soft real-time Scheme implementations!
ypsilon is the implementation of Scheme Programming Language, which conforms to the latest standard R6RS. It achieves a remarkably short GC pause time and the best performance in parallel execution as it implements “mostly concurrent garbage collection”, which is optimized for the multi-core CPU system. If you are wondering “Why yet another Scheme implementation” you [...]