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Simon Brooke

Simon Brooke

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · 2 days ago

Simon Brooke

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · 2 days ago

Simon Brooke

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · 4 days ago

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@mdhughes@appdot.net · 6 days ago

@screwlisp @dougmerritt @ramin_hal9001 Demented. And yet, can we not then host Ramin's Emacs Lisp in Kawa in CL? Finally, it is freed from dependence on real hardware.

These stacks always remind me of the "launch" in Greg Egan's Permutation City. Some computation is necessary to prove it real, then Dust Hypothesis lifts it out of need for reality.
#lisp #scheme #perversions

screwlisp

@screwlisp@gamerplus.org · 6 days ago

@dougmerritt

@mdhughes @ramin_hal9001
Do you both have opinions?

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@mdhughes@appdot.net · 6 days ago

@screwlisp @dougmerritt @ramin_hal9001 Demented. And yet, can we not then host Ramin's Emacs Lisp in Kawa in CL? Finally, it is freed from dependence on real hardware.

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amen zwa, esq.

@AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz · last year

Prof. Dybvig's paper, "The Development of Chez Scheme" (2006), is a brief history of the #Chez Scheme compiler that he had been working on since 1985. Despite his quiet, understated tone, he manages to convey in this paper his heart-felt enthusiasm for, and decades-long dedication to, the Scheme language and its implementations. This is indeed an inspiration to all of us #geeks. Today, Chez Scheme is one of the fastest, most compact, and most advanced implementation of #R6RS.

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=bee2a90e39bc709835ae184e286a20afb02a0792

Dybvig was, in turn, a student of another pillar of the Scheme community, Prof. Friedman. I first came across Dybvig's work, when I read the 1ed of his famous book, "The Scheme Programming Language" (1987), the 4ed of which was published in 2009 and it covers R6RS.

https://www.amazon.com/Scheme-Programming-Language-Kent-Dybvig/dp/013791864X

The book "Chez Scheme Version 10.0.0 User’s Guide" (2024), published by Cisco, covers the inner workings of Chez Scheme v10, which is a superset of R6RS.

https://cisco.github.io/ChezScheme/csug10.0/csug.pdf

Chez Scheme and the whole of Dybvig's work are the guide posts for all #Lisp and #Scheme #programmers.

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https://www.amazon.com/Scheme-Programming-Language-Kent-Dybvig/dp/013791864X

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Ramin Honary

@ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org · last week

New book: “The Genius of Lisp” by Cees de Groot

Looks like a fascinating read! They have provided chapter 8 as a PDF file downloadable gratis as a sneak-peek into the rest of the book, guess what it’s about:

Chapter 8: Sussman and Steel make Scheme

Awesome! I can’t wait to read that chapter, and then the rest of the book!

Details on the book homepage: https://berksoft.ca/gol/

#tech #software #Lisp #Scheme #SchemeLang #R7RS

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@cdegroot/116086771614712320

The Genius Of Lisp

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Cees de Groot

@cdegroot@mstdn.ca · last week

Well, today is the day. I'm finally "sorta happy enough to pull the trigger" on publishing the book I've been working on for a very long time. It's a technical history book: by a techie, for techies (although I think that between all the code samples, there is plenty of meat for "tech-adjacent" and "tech-interested" people). It tells the story of the Lisp programming language, invented by a genius called John McCarthy in 1958 and today still going strong (to the extent that many people see it as the most powerful programming language in existence).

And this is a time for shameless self promotion, even if you don't plan on buying the book, please repost :-). Self-publishing is self-marketing, so there we go.

If you do buy and read it, please let me know how you liked it!

The book landing page, https://berksoft.ca/gol, has links to all outlets where you can buy the book,