Eric Sessoms announced his Erlang-Scheme interoperability library recently on the PLT discussion list. What it is: Basically, it’s a port of Distel from emacs lisp over to scheme. It talks to erlang using its own protocol and impersonates an erlang node on the network. It aims to provide an abstraction such that erlang processes look [...]
Emacs Commands Work in OS X. Guess it is time to buy a Mac ;).
A silent revolution has changed the way computer science is understood and taught. The modern curriculum no longer focuses on the constructs of a language and the state changes in the machine. Instead, programming is taught as a problem-solving process that starts from a thorough understanding of classes of data and objects. The TeachScheme! Project [...]
The Common Lisp HyperSpec is a hypertext version of the ANSI Common Lisp standard comprising approximately 15MB of data in 2300 files which contain approximately 105,000 hyperlinks. (via Wikipedia)
90 minute video presentation from Marc Feeley, along with accompanying PowerPoint slides and source code, for a Scheme to C compiler. Good discussion of continuations and closures, as well as some dipping into the area of compiler construction. I didn’t work through this but it looks like it might be a fun project to undertake [...]