[swn] Scheme Weekly News for 2003-02-03


Scheme Weekly News for 2003-02-03

Preface: Big issue this week, covering all of January.  A mixture of
illness, holiday and technical problems has meant an extended enforced
break for SWN, but we should be back to Mondays from next week and the
web site will finally get its update.  Thanks for your emails during
the break.  It's nice to know this list is appreciated.

URL: http://mjr.towers.org.uk/swn/

        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.  (Date: 2003-02-03)
        (Compiled by: MJ Ray)


scsh 0.6.3

        scsh is a shell written in Scheme, and then more, allowing
        systems-level programming on POSIX and Microsoft Windows systems
        from Scheme.  This version adds an interface to the MD5 library,
        starts more quickly and is distributed with a smaller heap image
        (by stripping it).  Support for SRFI 25, 26, 27, 28, and 30 has
        been added and interfaces to non-blocking IO and select 
improved.

URL: http://www.scsh.net/



SISC 1.7.1-beta

        SISC is a Java-based interpreter of Scheme that supports a
        range of extra features, but also contains all of R5RS Scheme.
        This release bugfixes the new continuation capture system,
        circularity detection and circular structure parsing.

URL: http://sisc.sf.net/


LAML version 19

        LAML is a Scheme-based software package for programming and
        authoring of complex web material, and for CGI programming,
        usable from most Scheme implementations.  The major feature of
        version 19 is XML-in-LAML.

URL: http://www.cs.auc.dk/~normark/laml/


SRFI-37: args-fold

        This SRFI entered final status.  It covers processing of program
        arguments through a standard interface across implementations.

URL: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-37/


SRFI-40: A Library of Streams

        This SRFI entered draft status.  It may enter final after 3 
April.
        It covers stream processing and discussion is invited on the
        srfi-40 mailing list.

URL: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-40/


ReadScheme Library Expands Again

        Four more documents were added to the ReadScheme online
        bibliography in January, including two from PADL03.

URL: http://library.readscheme.org/


GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.2

        GNU TeXmacs is a scientific document editor inspired by Emacs 
and
        LaTeX, based on GNU Guile.  This version is the first release of
        the 1.0.1 series to be announced here and contains many changes
        since the 1.0.0 series.

URL: http://www.texmacs.org/


Scheme UK Meeting 5 Feb 2003

        There is a Scheme UK meeting scheduled in London for Wednesday
        5 Feb 2003.  Maybe see some of you there.

URL: http://schematics.sourceforge.net/scheme-london/


Quack.el 0.17

        Quack is an Emacs support package for developing Scheme 
programs.
        It is layered upon cmuscheme.el and scheme.el.  This version 
adds
        "light" and "dark" default faces and splits out the w3m support,
        amongst other things.

URL: http://www.neilvandyke.org/quack/


Guile GTK at Savannah

        The Guile GTK Homepage has moved to Savannah.  The project
        offers bindings for the common GTK toolkit to be used from the
        Guile implementation.  There are series for both 1.2 and 2.0
        GTK versions.

URL: http://www.nongnu.org/guile-gtk/


Guile 1.6.3

        This is a maintenance release of the GNU Scheme implementation.
        It fixes some problems with the 1.6.2 distribution tarball.
        1.6.2 fixed some syntax-case bugs and improved GOOPS a little.

URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/


Scheme Scribe 1.1a

        Scheme Scribe (Scribe hereafter) is a text processor.  It best
        suits the writing of technical documents such as web pages or
        technical reports, API documentations, etc.  It looks like 
markup,
        so there is no need to know programming.

URL: http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Scribe/


Swindle 20030203

        Swindle is a collection of modules that extend PLT Scheme with
        many additional features, including a CLOS-like OO system and
        some syntax extensions.

URL: http://www.barzilay.org/Swindle/


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