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Tag Archives: Scheme

A FFI with Tcl Example

Ben provides a FFI with Tcl example using PLT Scheme.

gnuplot.plt

This library provides a wrapper interface to gnuplot. Using the library, mzscheme programs can spawn inferior gnuplot processes and plot data to windows or hardcopy with a programmatic interface.
(via PLT Scheme Blog)

Scheme Constraints Window Manager

Scwm is the Scheme Constraints/Configurable Window Manager. It is a window manager with a powerful dynamic configuration language based on Guile Scheme. Scwm has many, many advanced features, often implemented in the configuration language itself.

Source Code for Various Old Scheme Implementations

The source code for various, older, Scheme implementations can be found here. It is pretty interesting to read about the differing interests of the implementers.
(via comp.lang.scheme)

Gambit Scheme on the iPhone

This might be the first Scheme running on the iPhone!
(via comp.lang.scheme)

PLT Web Server Changes

Jay, maintainer of the PLT Web Server, has recently made a lot of changes to make it easier for folks to get started with the app server. The latest change is in the documentation, per this post:

The PLT Web Server manual was organized too much like a reference manual with little guide to a [...]

IronScheme does CPS

IronScheme does CPS!

Why Calculating is Better than Scheming

In 1987 Phil Wadler wrote the paper Why Calculating is Better than Scheming. It is an essay on the shortcomings of using Scheme as the programming language with which to teach beginning programmers in SICP, and how Miranda would have a better choice for teaching the software engineers of tomorrow. This was very fun for [...]

A peasant revolt against DrScheme!

Here is an interesting thread in the PLT discussion archive discussing the want of beginning programmers only to learn things that are clearly useful!
(surely via the PLT Discussion list, but I can’t recall or find it…)

Carneades

Carneades is an argument mapping application, with a graphical user interface, and a software library for building applications supporting various argumentation tasks.
The interesting thing about this is that it is written in both JavaFX and R6RS Scheme!
(via comp.lang.scheme)