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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Maglev Ruby
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Ruby is often compared to Smalltalk; and I’m sure a bunch of folks have always wondered when someone would implement Ruby either on top of Smalltalk (or even in a similar manner to Smalltalk, aka Rubinius).
Avi Bryant wondered as such, and seems to have gotten a job out of it in producing Maglev Ruby [...]
Nondeterministic Computing with amb
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Ben demonstrates how to utilize nondeterministic computing in his article Escape From Zurg.
Computing History at Bell Labs
Sunday, July 13, 2008
In 1997, on his retirement from Bell Labs, Doug McIlroy gave a fascinating talk about the “History of Computing at Bell Labs.”
Here is one man’s transcription of that talk.
I only skimmed over it (at the moment I’m not interested in what was); but nonetheless it does look like a great talk with a lot of [...]
match.ss Examples
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Ben posted some examples of how to use the PLT match.ss library here.
Mosh Scheme
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Mosh Scheme is
A Fast R6RS Scheme interpreter.
I saw Mosh referenced on the SRFI-98 email discussion archive.
There already a wiki written using Mosh.
Addendum 7/18/8:
Mosh has been updated to version 0.0.5.
SRFI 98: An interface to access environment variables
Saturday, July 12, 2008
This announces the availability for discussion of
Scheme Request for Implementation 98
“An interface to access environment variables.”
by Taro Minowa(Higepon).
Its draft and an archive of the ongoing discussion is available at
http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-98/
(via Usenet)
SD Cards on the XO
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Here is the page on the OLPC website that documents secure digital cards on the XO.
The XO supports SDHC (high capacity). I use a 16GB AData card on my XO without problem.
Here is a little reminder: when you insert the SD card into the XO, do so with the screen, and the shiny part of [...]