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Scheme Weekly News for 2003-10-27
This is a round-up of news and announcements related to the Scheme programming language, mostly taken from newsgroups, mailing lists and web sites that I'm aware of. Feel free to send me more. The aim is to publish in multiple formats on the web each week, but more on that very soon.
New Scheme Requests For Implementation drafts were received for "Primitives for expressing iterative lazy algorithms" and "Ellipsis in Macro-Generating SYNTAX-RULES Macros"
WebIt is a module collection for PLT scheme for creating XML, HTML and CSS. The current release is 20030713 and the current release of ssax-rsxml happened on 9 August 2003.
Gauche is a scheme interpreter designed to be suitable for system scripting. This release adds dbm.fsdbm and improves gauche.charconv, gauche.process, gauche.net, www.cgi and many others.
GNU TeXmacs is a scientific document processor inspired by Emacs and LaTeX, but built with Guile Scheme. This is the first 1.0.2 release reported by SWN and contains many improvements over the 1.0.1 series.
Quack is an Emacs mode for editing scheme and working with scheme interpreters. This release updates Chicken manuals support, adds PLT error message navigation for compile, fixes XEmacs menus and introduces quack-newline-behavior setting.
eguile is an interpreter that evaluates guile scripts in html processing instructions. This version includes a bug fix for the "chopping off the last bit" bug.
Chicken is a Scheme compiler under a BSD-style licence. This release contains many bug fixes, new features, improved scheduling, removal of special cases and brings the version number back to 2 decimal places.
New Gauche GTK and GL bindings
These releases are from early October for Gauche 0.7.2. They are Gauche-gl 0.3 and Gauche-gtk 0.3.1. There is also a new wiki page for contributed modules for Gauche scheme.
Swindle is a module collection for PLT Scheme that includes a CLOS-like object system and much more. It is under the LGPL and this release is for PLT 205.
Bugloo is a command line based debugger. User can control the debugger by typing Scheme-like expression into a prompt. For the sake of simplicity, Bugloo includes a debugging environment for Emacsen
The GNU Image Manipulation Program is a sophisticated graphics editor with the ability to run scheme scripts on images. This release includes many feature enhancements and bug fixes.
Guile bindings for glib, pango, atk, gdk, and gtk+. There are no large changes in this release. The author uses it daily in his guile bindings for gstreamer. Download Link.
Discordian Section of the Grand Recursive Order of the Knights of the Lambda Calculus will meet on the Chaos Communication Camp, 7.-10. of August, near Berlin.
Schemix is a Linux loadable kernel module that allows you to access kernel functions from a scheme interpreter. This release improves support for Schemix in scheme, includes more of R4RS and simplifies the build system.
Bigloo is a practical Scheme compiler. 2.6a is a major release introducing experimental .NET bytecode generation. The compiler is now able to produce (i) native code (ii) JVM bytecode (iii) .NET bytecode. The release also includes new libraries, improvements and bug fixes.
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