Scheme Weekly News for 2003-04-14 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: 2003-04-14) (Compiled by: MJ Ray) SRFI 38 Finalised SRFI 38, External Representation for Data with Shared Structure, has gone into the final state. URL: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-38/ Web-It! 0.8 Web-It! is an XML processing framework for PLT Scheme v202 or later supporting the creation of XML, HTML and CSS. This release improves CSS support, adds some HTML entities and expands the API slightly with a has-attribute? function. URL: http://celtic.benderweb.net/webit/ snd 6.7 snd is a GPL'd sound editor modelled loosely after Emacs and dpysnd. This is a minor bugfix release (which also adds some more ruby support). URL: http://snd.sf.net/ GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.10 TeXmacs is a scientific document editor for X inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs, but based on Guile Scheme. This version introduces a more robust HTML and XML parser and revives the online help for Maxima 5.9 URL: http://www.texmacs.org/ scsh 0.6.4 The Scheme Shell has had a new stable release, which is a bug-fix release mainly, but also introduces support for more SRFIs and revises the implementation of SRFI-19. The upcoming version 2.0 of the Scheme Untergrund Network Package builds on this release. URL: http://www.scsh.net/ SRFI 43: Vector Library Scheme Request For Implementation number 43 by Taylor Campbell has been uploaded. It attempts to be a similar useful library for vectors as those already provided for lists (SRFI-1) and strings (SRFI-13). URL: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-43/ SISC 1.7.8 SISC is a full Scheme interpreter written in Java, including a full numeric tower and continuations. It can also interface with other routines in the Java VM. This is a maintenance release, fixing some bugs found since the last stable release. URL: http://sisc.sf.net/