Gwen's funny pages
06. February 2021
Akku.scm version 1.1.0, a language package manager for R6RS and R7RS Scheme, is now generally available. It can be downloaded from GitLab. This version adds support for Guile 3.0, Digamma, and includes some bug fixes and new features.
30. August 2020
Operating systems and file systems have traditionally been developed hand in hand. They impose mutual constraints on each other. Today we have two major leaders in file system semantics: Windows and POSIX. They are very close to each other when compared to the full set of possibilities. Interesting things happened before POSIX monopolized file system semantics.
20. June 2020
Akku.scm is a language package manager for R6RS and R7RS Scheme. The software that powers the package index has been growing beyond the simple one-liner it was in the beginning and today I’ve finally pushed it to a public repository. I’ve also made preparations for hosting packages as tarballs directly in the archive.
15. May 2020
While I was writing a manpage for Scheme’s quasiquote, something I saw surprised me and changed my understanding of quasiquote. It turns out that a new language, with semantics that are interesting to PLT enthusiasts, hides behind the innocent backtick character. Starting with R6RS Scheme, quasiquote became total magic.