Bus Scheme is an implementation of Scheme in Ruby.
You can read a little more about it in various posts on the authors blog.
Bus Scheme is an implementation of Scheme in Ruby.
You can read a little more about it in various posts on the authors blog.
Artist mode lets you draw lines, squares, rectangles and poly-lines, ellipses, and circles with your mouse and/or keyboard. It is extremely useful when inserting text diagrams or figures in your source comments.
Shlisp is a Lisp without lists!
One of the questions that has been lingering in the back of my mind for a long time is “When should a company use a DSL?”. My stock answer has always been “When it makes sense.”
Perhaps a better way is to answer that question is to look at how companies are actually using them today, rather then to simply guess!
Have a look at the “case studies” section in this presentation on ContractML to see how companies are using DSLs today.
(via cufp)
IntelliFactory is a company that facilitates the adoption of functional programming, in particular, F#.
(via cufp)
One man’s lament.
(thanks jfm)
Addendum: 8/6/8
On vacation, I re-read this, and wanted to share some interesting bits:
Seems that RMS is taking IDE design cues from Eclipse! (thanks Yoni)
Someone please point him at IntelliJ Idea.
Here is a tweak to configure auto-save to cooperate with your buffers in Emacs.
The University of Waterloo has switched first year students to Scheme.
There is a big difference between learning how to program and in learning a particular language. Scheme makes the former so much easier!