johncowan

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by johncowan 5y ago
She wasn't "kicked out"; she resigned rather than answer certain questions, as was her right.
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by johncowan 6y ago
R7RS-large is a work in progress, and will not have a single "ratification" event. The work has been divided into editions named after colors, which are cumulative. So far the contents of the Red Edition and the Tangerine Editio
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by johncowan 6y ago
Without regulation you don't have a market at all, you have war, where the best and cheapest way to beat your competitors is to murder them. Even the Mafia found it was better to establish a council to work out beefs and reduce inter-
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by johncowan 7y ago
Portability of Scheme code between implementations is still difficult (I'm working on it), but the portability of Scheme implementations is usually good, and the Scheme48 interpreter on which scsh runs will go anywhere Posixy without
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by johncowan 7y ago
The PDP-6 Monitor came out in 1964 and TOPS-10 was its lineal descendant (the result of progressively modifying the codebase to support different PDP-10 models), whereas the first PDP-8 model came out in 1965. OS/8 first appeared in 1
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by johncowan 7y ago
You've conflated TOPS-10 and TOPS-20. TENEX was developed externally by BBN, took advantage of BBN-built add-on paging hardware, and was quite different in both look and feel and its internals from TOPS-10, which had originated on the
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by johncowan 8y ago
Chicken works great on WSL. I used to have it on both WSL and Cygwin.
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by johncowan 8y ago
Working on that. As SRFIs get incorporated into the R7RS-large edition of the standard, they get renamed to (scheme list) and so on. Of course, that hasn't propagated too far yet, but it's coming.
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by johncowan 10y ago
In practice, proprietary Schemes have not survived unless they have become free software.
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by johncowan 10y ago
We understand fine. The standard is freely available and reusable, the implementations are free software (now that Chez has become so), the process is as open as can be. If you'd rather maintain your own archive of posts, please do,
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by johncowan 10y ago
Some 66% of those who voted on R6RS voted "yes" (including me). Some 88% of those who voted on R7RS voted "yes" (including me).