James Long wrote a nice and comprehensive article about using Gambit-C Scheme for the development of iPhone applications.
Archive of posts filed under the Scheme category.
Adding a garbage collector
I guess it is clear by now that I am writing a toy Scheme compiler and virtual machine. Primarily for learning the techniques, I just touch it from time to time. The last addition to the virtual machine was a Cheney-style copy garbage collector. I wanted to implement a very simple algorithm to get a [...]
My voter registration
The voter registration period for the Scheme Steering Comittee is over. I thought I could then post my statement of interest: I have been using Scheme for almost four years now. I use it mostly for studying programming languages and programming in general, prototyping and testing new ideas, but I have also developed and sold [...]
Compiling let
Following my previous Scheme toy interpreter in Lua, I have already tried twice to write a simple Scheme compiler. I failed mostly because the complexity grew too fast and I could not see any of it working before losing interest. But I then read Ghuloum’s paper on incremental compiler construction. It’s a very nice approach, [...]
Equivalent of and-let*?
By this point I believe it’s clear that I am a big fan of Scheme. Lately I have seen a sharp rise of interest in Ruby in some virtual places I attend (#lisp-br, twitter, IM with coworkers etc.). I am sure Ruby is a fine language, even in spite of several complaints I hear from [...]
Meroon for Gambit-C
Meroon is a Scheme object system by Christian Queinnec. It is portable, fast, CLOS-like and reflexive. The Meroon home page cites versions for several popular Scheme systems, including Gambit-C. But the links to the Gambit-C version are broken. Doing a bit of research, that actually involved some guessing, I found the Meroon Gambit-C port in [...]
The need for speed
I have found a very interesting thread in the Gambit-C Scheme mailing list. Marc Feeley tries to dismiss the myth that floating-point calculations are inherently faster in C/C++ than in Scheme, which is taken as common wisdom. The the work of Bradley Lucier is cited as a case of very fast numerical Scheme code. Bradley [...]
Bibliography of Programming Languages Implementation
Doing some research about compilers, interpreters and virtual machines, I have gathered some bibliography from several resources. Here it is, in no particular order: Essentials of Programming Languages, by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand and Christopher T. Haynes Programming Language Pragmatics, by Michael L. Scott Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation, by Adele Goldberg and [...]