On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Chris Hanson wrote: > For some time now, all development on MIT/GNU Scheme has been done by > me. I am still making changes to the system on a regular basis, but I > haven't had the time to put together a new release.
Out of curiosity, what, well, happened to the other developers -- Guillermo Rozas, Stephen Adams, &c. --? > > [...] > > (There is a separate effort by a couple of MIT alumni to port the > compiler to recent-vintage Macs running OS X. I don't know how far > that has gone.) Do you know whom to contact regarding that? I heard vague second-hand rumours about it a couple years ago from someone at Akamai, but all I heard was that it existed. (Since my main machine is a Mac, this is of particular interest to me.) > Second, I've split the empty list from #f, so the system is finally > compliant with the ISO/IEEE Scheme standard. It is mostly compliant > with R5RS, but there are a few problematic areas. I have implemented > several SRFIs, but there are many more that would be useful have. > Again, this is an area where help would be appreciated. I've started working on a SRFI package for MIT Scheme, for those that can be simply added on, and I have a pretty good idea of how others that require some internal changes can be implemented. > Third, the documentation has been falling further behind, as it > usually does since it's not as much fun as coding. Help in updating > it would be useful. I've already undertaken a Scheme48 documentation project; I could try to take a stab at some of what's undocumented in MIT Scheme, too. > To summarize, MIT/GNU Scheme is _not_ dead, but it's awfully sleepy. > I will continue to support it for the foreseeable future, but due to > lack of interest I don't want to make large infrastructural changes. > I _am_ willing to support such efforts by others, however. I will > continue to make releases as time permits, but if you want to see more > activity, you'll have to help out. So drop me a line if you're > interested. I'm very interested in helping out -- in general, I'm interested in seeing the two old & really industrial-strength Scheme systems, MIT Scheme & T, brought up to date & into active development. As you might know, I & Brian Mastenbrook started what we're calling the T Revival Project, and I'm interested in helping out with MIT Scheme, too. _______________________________________________ MIT-Scheme-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/mit-scheme-users
