so-cal-schemer

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by so-cal-schemer 6d ago
This book looks amazing. Last month I put in a purchase request for a copy at my local library. I may end up buying a few copies: for myself and for gifts; especially if I could get them signed by the author.. :D
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by so-cal-schemer 7d ago
I'd love to take you out for coffee or lunch some day.
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by so-cal-schemer 7d ago
Here is another tiny and highly portable Scheme that I submitted along with this: https://github.com/udem-dlteam/ribbit https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13589 Ribbit: A portable, compact and extensible
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by so-cal-schemer 8d ago
200% (or 2x) smaller than 3 is.. ?
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by so-cal-schemer 8d ago
to spell it out: 200% as large as 1 is 2. 200% larger than 1 is 3 ..
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by so-cal-schemer 10d ago
It must have been a good introduction. I later aced bh's cs61a.
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by so-cal-schemer 10d ago
Computer Science Logo Style Volume 1: Symbolic Computing https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/v1-toc2.html Computer Science Logo Style Volume 2: Advanced Techniques https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh&
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Ribbit: A Small Scheme VM, Compiler and REPL in 4K (2021) [video](youtube.com)
4 points by so-cal-schemer 10d ago|1 comments
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by so-cal-schemer 10d ago
Compact language implementations are increasingly popular for use in resource constrained environments. For embedded applications such as robotics and home automation, it is useful to support a Read-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL) so that a basic l
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LispBM is a concurrent Lisp for microcontrollers with message passing(lispbm.com)
3 points by so-cal-schemer 10d ago|1 comments
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by so-cal-schemer 10d ago
LispBM (LBM) is a Lisp or Scheme-like programming language for microcontrollers. LispBM also borrows a couple of ideas from Erlang when it comes to concurrency, message passing, pattern matching and process monitoring. The LispBM runtime s
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by so-cal-schemer 10d ago
A good place to start: https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/
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by so-cal-schemer 14d ago
Logo on Apple //e computers was my first foray into programming. I was entranced.
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by so-cal-schemer 14d ago
There seems to be a lot of unreasonable down-voting happening these days. You can click on the time-of-post to "vouch" for down-voted or "[dead]" comments to bring them back. Otherwise, to read them, I will select the te
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by so-cal-schemer 15d ago
A recent discussion: We should revisit literate programming in the agent era (silly.business) 292 points by horseradish 6 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 266 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=473
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Knuth: Literate Programming(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
2 points by so-cal-schemer 18d ago|3 comments
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by so-cal-schemer 18d ago
Literate programming is a methodology that combines a programming language with a documentation language, thereby making programs more robust, more portable, more easily maintained, and arguably more fun to write than programs that are wri
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by so-cal-schemer 20d ago
Cool! Looks like a company that grew out of §3.3.4 of SICP. Hardware oriented NixOS and GUIX users should be very interested in this: declarative PCB designs. 3.3.4 A Simulator for Digital Circuits https://sarabander.github.io&#x
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Tcl for Web Nerds(philip.greenspun.com)
4 points by so-cal-schemer 22d ago|1 comments
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by so-cal-schemer 23d ago
Tcl for Web Nerds by Hal Abelson, Philip Greenspun, and Lydia Sandon https://philip.greenspun.com/tcl/ If in reading this introduction, you've come to realize that "Hey, Tcl is just like Lisp, but without a
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by so-cal-schemer 24d ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20000312031235/http://photo.net/... Currently scheduled boot camps: Earn a $10,000 signing bonus if you join ArsDigita after completing our home study program.
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by so-cal-schemer 24d ago
https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/lang/STk/in... STk is a Scheme interpreter which can access to the Tk graphical package. Concretely it can be seen as the John Ousterhout'
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ArsDigita University: 25 Years Later(medium.com)
4 points by so-cal-schemer 24d ago|2 comments
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by so-cal-schemer 24d ago
Before ADuni, ArsDigita hosted a number of weeklong workshops at their regional offices. Anyone here attend one of those?
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Chapter 10: Sites That Are Programs (1998)(philip.greenspun.com)
3 points by so-cal-schemer 24d ago|1 comments
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by so-cal-schemer 24d ago
Server-side programming is straightforward and can be done in almost any computer language. However, making the wrong technology decisions can result in a site that requires ten times the computer hardware to support. Bad programming can a
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by so-cal-schemer 24d ago
Who else here read Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing, used AOLserver, or attended an ArsDigita workshop or ADuni? Chapter 10: Sites That Are Really Programs https://philip.greenspun.com/panda/server-program
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Learn Scheme by Example: Tk GUI with Chicken Scheme(blog.matthewdmiller.net)
1 points by so-cal-schemer 24d ago|1 comments
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by so-cal-schemer 24d ago
PS/Tk stands for a portable Scheme interface to the Tk GUI toolkit. It has a rich history going all the way back to Scheme_wish by Sven Hartrumpf in 1997. Wolf-Dieter Busch created a Chicken port called Chicken/Tk in 2004. It too
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by so-cal-schemer 24d ago
A collection of Tk resources for Scheme: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Scheme This is quite old, but I always remember seeing it in the BSD packages collection: https://conservatory.scheme.org/stk&#x2F

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