Scheme Weekly News for 2003-03-31 Aside: when all else fails, curse, swear and fall back to the version of the publishing system that you know works. [Translation: the promised goodies will be later.] 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: 2003-03-31) (Compiled by: MJ Ray) ReadScheme library gains more papers A substantial number of new papers on a range of topics were added to the site on 30 March. URL: http://library.readscheme.org/ Gauche 0.6.8 Gauche is a scheme implementation that aims to be both RnRS complete and useful for system development work. This release includes many bug fixes and also improves the regular expression engine to almost full POSIX. URL: http://www.shiro.dreamhost.com/scheme/gauche/ TeXmacs 1.0.1.8 TeXmacs is a scientific document editor based on guile and influenced by TeX and Emacs. This release starts the move of the internal code to the guile module system, continues the move of the plugins and introduces some widget improvements. URL: http://www.texmacs.org/ Chicken 1.0 Chicken is a Scheme-to-C compiler supporting most of the language features as defined in the Revised^5 Report on Scheme. This release includes many bugfixes and enhancements over the last version 0 release, including SRFI-22 script support. URL: http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/chicken.html UriFrame 0.1 UriFrame is a library for web agents that provides a framework for handling URIs. It is written for PLT Scheme and is not yet recommended for production use. Comments on the API are invited. URL: http://www.neilvandyke.org/uriframe/ MoshiMoshi 0.7 This is a WikiWikiWeb implemented in PLT Scheme using the supplied web support. This release adds RecentChanges and improves some markup support. URL: http://schematics.sourceforge.net/ Sxmlcnv 0.0.3 Sxmlcnv converts SXML into XML. I think it is currently limited to Gauche Scheme, but I could be wrong. URL: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~kiyoka/sxmlcnv/ snd 6.7 snd, the sound editor based upon GTK and Guile, has just released version 6.7, which includes numerous improvements. URL: http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/software/snd/ DALT CFP The First International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, Melbourne, Australia, 15 July 2003, has just published its second call for papers. URL: http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jleite/dalt03/ SISC 1.7.7 SISC is a Java implementation of Scheme with full tail-call recursion and continuation support, as well as some speed. This bugfix release contains fixes for OS/2, SRFI-1 and SRFI-6, data structures of compiled libraries and a rename of the buffers library. URL: http://sisc.sf.net/ SWIG 1.3.18 The Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator is a tool for producing alternative language interfaces to C libraries. It includes support for Guile, PLT and Chicken implementations of Scheme. This release improves support for C++ libraries, introduces support for C# and Chicken, and includes the usual round of bug fixes and improvements. URL: http://www.swig.org/ CHARME 2003 CFP The 12th Advanced Research Working Conference on Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods, 21-24 October 2003, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy, has issued its first call for papers. URL: http://www.di.univaq.it/charme2003