Scheme Weekly News

There seems to have been a problem with the last couple of editions for some
subscribers.  They are resent below.

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: 2002-12-16)
	(Compiled by: MJ Ray)


Guile 1.6.1

	Maintenance release of the GNU Unified Interface Language for
	Enhancements, a Scheme language for GNU software.  This release
	fixes the Emacs interface, installs SRFI C headers, uses an
	enhanced libtool and introduces support for "effective versions"
	so that new stable series releases should not require unnecessary
	rewrites of contributed code.

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


Draft SRFI-38: External Representation for Data With Shared Structure

	Comment is requested on this new Scheme Request For Implementation
	document.

URL: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-38/


ReadScheme Online Bibliography additions

	Paul Haahr's paper "Montage: Breaking Windows into Small Pieces"
	from 1990 has been added.

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


SISC 1.7.0 beta

	SISC is a Java Scheme interpreter with some innovative features
	and straight-line speed.  This version rearchitects SISC's
	continutation capture algorithms and fixes problems in the
	quantity library and object retention.	Early appearance of the
	SISC Object System, similar to MIT Scheme's SOS.  Future versions
	will include more optimisations and "more polish".

URL: http://sisc.sourceforge.net/


Quack.el 0.16

	Quack is an Emacs mode for better Scheme editing, based on
	past work.  This version now calls blink-paren-function when
	quack-insert-closing is used, adds some PLTish font-lock keywords
	and uses the PLT 202 manuals.

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


MoshiMoshi 0.6

	MoshiMoshi is a WikiWikiWeb tool written with PLT-Scheme.
	This release ports the code to run on v20x versions of PLT-Scheme
	and includes some usability improvements.

URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/schematics


GNU TeXmacs 1.0.0.25

	TeXmacs is a scientific document processor inspired by TeX and
	Emacs, built on Guile Scheme.  This release includes many minor
	bugfixes and improves some menu rendering.

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


Gauche 0.6.6

	Gauche is a Scheme implementation that aims to be useful for
	daily work, with quick startup, system interface and native
	multilingual support.  This release includes bugfixes and several
	new modules, including MD5 and SHA1 implementations.

URL: http://www.shiro.dreamhost.com/scheme/gauche/

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Scheme Weekly News for 2002-12-09

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: 2002-12-09)
	(Compiled by: MJ Ray)


GNU TeXmacs 1.0.0.24

	GNU TeXmacs is a scientific structured text editor with
	mathematical and indexing capabilities, inspired by Emacs and
	TeX, using high-quality typesetting algorithms.  This release
	adds more customisation options and types of description lists.

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


Chicken build 1082

	A new build of the Chicken scheme-to-C compiler, version 0,
	is available now.  This release introduces SRFIs 26 and 30,
	some bugfixes, manual format translations, a testing framework,
	declaration specifies and more library units, amongst others.

URL: http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/chicken.html


Qish rel. 0.6 (GPL) - runtime & garbage collector

	Qish is a faster, but less robust, garbage collector which may
	be of interest to programmers implementing Scheme.

URL: http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/qishintro.html

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Scheme Weekly News for 2002-12-02

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: 2002-12-01)
	(Compiled by: MJ Ray)


WebIt! framework development copy now available

	The WebIt! framework for XML-based programming in PLT Scheme
	now has its development code available via CVS and there is a
	mailing list called webit-discuss for the project.

URL: http://celtic.benderweb.net/webit/


SCM 5d7

	SCM is a Scheme implementation conforming to R5RS and IEEE P1178.
	It is written in C and runs under Amiga, Atari-ST, MacOS, MS-DOS,
	OS/2, NOS/VE, Unicos, VMS, Windows, Unix, and similar systems.
	Interpreters, compilers and many libraries are available.
	This release includes diverse improvements and new features.

URL: http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SCM.html


SLIB2d5

	SLIB is a portable Scheme library providing compatibility and
	utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations.
	This release includes many new features and some improved
	algorithms.  Full documentation is available.

URL: http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html


GNU TeXmacs 1.0.0.23

	GNU TeXmacs is a scientific WYSIWYM document processor based on
	guile scheme and TeX, partly inspired by emacs.  This release
	adds numbered equation arrays, improves the LaTeX import filter
	and fixes some bugs.

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


OLE DB library for MzScheme

	Feedback is requested on this first draft of a database interface
	for MzScheme on the Windows platform.  It is currently minimalist,
	but may be of interest because of the wide range of databases it
	can talk to and the implementation using the new-style Windows
	framework.  The API is likely to change in response to comments.

URL: http://www.rivendell.ws/ss-db/


Bigloo release 2.5c

	This is a minor release of the Scheme implementation that
	includes an interpreter and compilers to JVM and native code.
	Includes improvements in FairThreads, bug fixes and enhancement of
	"true" 32- and 64-bit integers since 2.5b release.

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