Scheme Weekly News

Scheme Weekly News for 2003-04-29

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: 2003-04-29)
	(Compiled by: MJ Ray)


SRFI 44 -- Collections

	A draft of this SRFI has been posted and comment is invited
	by joining its mailing list.  A Collections API which defines
	a common naming scheme and set of operations for creating,
	accessing, and manipulating common datastructures in Scheme.

URL: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-44/


GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.12

	GNU TeXmacs is a scientific document editor inspired by TeX and
	GNU Emacs, but implemented in Guile Scheme.  This version improves
	the HTML input filter (rewritten in Scheme) and introduces a
	MathML input filter.  A reorganisation of the file management
	code began.

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


FLOPS2004

	Seventh International Symposium on Functional and Logic
	Programming will be at Nara-Ken New Public Hall, Nara, Japan from
	7 to 9 April 2004.  The symposium is a forum for research on all
	issues concerning functional programming and logic programming.
	The submission deadline is 1 October 2003.

URL: http://logic.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/FLOPS2004/


LSM2003/VHLL

	The 2003 Libre Software Meeting will take place in Metz from
	9 to 12 July.  The Very High Level Languages track is meant to
	show how languages such as Lisp, Scheme and derivatives increas
	productivity, quality, etc.  Developers who want to share their
	experiences are invited to contact Fabrice.Popineau@supelec.fr

URL: http://rencontresmondiales.org


Expansion of the Scheme Bibliography

	The "Bibliography of Scheme-related Research" has grown
	substantially.	The collection of papers related to partial
	evaluation has nearly doubled, and now contains over 700
	citations.

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


Schemix 2.4.20

	Schemix is a Scheme system, implemented as a patch to the Linux
	kernel.  Currently the system can be successfully compiled into
	a 2.4.20 kernel, which then reads and executes Scheme code from
	/dev/schemix. Any output is written to /dev/schemix.

URL: http://www.abstractnonsense.com/schemix


dmd- 0.6

	dmd- is a daemon managing daemons (or daemons-managing daemon)
	written in guile as a replacement for the SysV-init with a
	powerful and beautiful dependency-based system.  This release
	adds docstring support and an "unkown service" service, as well
	as other minor changes.  It was designed for GNU/Hurd, but has
	been tested on GNU/Linux too.

URL: http://www.8ung.at/shell/dmd--0.6.tar.gz


SUnet version 2.0

	The Scheme Untergrund Networking Package is a collection of
	applications and libraries for Internet hacking, containing http,
	ftp, netrc, smtp, pop3, rfc822 and dns libraries.  This release
	is a complete overhaul.

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