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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Updated: Mr Ed Designer: Generating User Interfaces with PLT Scheme

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Maglev Ruby

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

Ben demonstrates how to utilize nondeterministic computing in his article Escape From Zurg.

Computing History at Bell Labs

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 [...]

match.ss Examples

Ben posted some examples of how to use the PLT match.ss library here.

Mosh Scheme

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

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)

OLPC News Forum

The OLPC News Forum is the place to go for XO discussion.

SD Cards on the XO

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 [...]

The OLPC Wiki

The OLPC Wiki is the place to go to get information about XO.