Unpopular opinion: Classic Lisp/Scheme isn't a great first programming language.[1]

When I learned Lisp in school I was incredibly confused by the difference between functional programming in the sense of passing functions and creating macros.

That key distinction and difference is important, and the homoiconicity[3] of Lisp made that distinction less clear than it needed to be.

Teach Scheme second or third if you like, not first.

#Lisp #Scheme #CompterScience #ComputerProgramming

[1] No I'm not talking about LOGO.[2]

[2] If LOGO was your first programming language (it was mine) then you're old.

[3] This is the Fediverse and now I'm sure someone is going to change their username to"Homoiconicity"

हिमकेयर योजना: सरकारी कर्मचारी होंगे योजना से बाहर, मुख्य सचिव ने मांगा डाटा; सख्त कार्यवाही के दिए निर्देश

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Veritas v0.1.6: The #guile #scheme (#lisp) testing framework

https://codeberg.org/jjba23/veritas

Updated on #guix : https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/1559

A lot of improvements made to it!
- More latin puns
- We have a powerful #test runner with auto-discovery and a lot of configurability
- Environment variables for more control
- Stability and performance improvements (on concurrency especially)
- Benchmarks with statprof
- Delayed computations in assertion
- Running ONLY tests or suites that match a regex

Playing around with Scheme again, encouraged by @jjba23... and wow... those old feelings I may start a project in (Guile) Scheme just to write some code in something different. I hear ideas (be reasonable though )

I am happy to say that the Guile Hacker Handbook is now powered by Haunt

(I might have broken the display on some kind of screens… sorry and let me know!)

This is a book to learn Guile in a #TestDrivenLearning style

For the occasion I rewrote the app tutorial section.

Check it out
https://jeko.frama.io

Be ready for the next move !

Thank you all for your feedback This is my fuel

wrote a Gauche #Scheme script to track down missing localizations in Localizable.xcstrings

% loccheck.scm -l it
missing in instance.limits.maxProfileFieldNameChars %lld
missing in instance.stats.comments %lld
missing in neo.tv.seasons %lld
source language: en
strings: 609

https://codeberg.org/technicat/schematic/src/branch/master/loccheck.scm

#guix #scheme #guile people.

I've done "guix install guile-netlink"

and inside ~/.guix-profile/share/guile/site/3.0 I see ip/ and netlink/

then in guile I do (add-to-load-path "~/.guix-profile...")

and now
(use-modules (ip))

and it says "no code for module (ip)"

what am I doing wrong?

webfinger from Gauche #Scheme

wf.scm -u pc@pc.cafe
((subject . acct:pc@pc.cafe) (aliases . #(https://pc.cafe/@pc https://pc.cafe/users/pc)) (links . #(((rel . http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page) (type . text/html) (href . https://pc.cafe/@pc)) ((rel . self) (type . application/activity+json) (href . https://pc.cafe/users/pc)) ((rel . http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe) (template . https://pc.cafe/authorize_interaction?uri={uri})) ((rel . http://webfinger.net/rel/avatar) (type . image/jpeg) (href . https://cdn.masto.host/pccafe/accounts/avatars/112/456/826/964/866/774/original/11834150fa19073e.jpeg)))))

#guile #scheme

i'm amazed that getopt-long doesn't handle description strings. it means you have to write out your useage/help manually instead of generating it from your command-line options...

Introducing Veritas v0.0.20: my new Lisp-powered (Guile Scheme) testing framework!

https://codeberg.org/jjba23/veritas

Born from my engineering experience and frustrations, I aim for incredible expressiveness. It is currently super early stages, also eager for other people to pitch in ideas before fully stabilizing the API. I also want to add many more capabilities for integration tests, containers and more.

#CommonLisp sturdy, industrial

#Scheme elegant, academic

#Emacs lisp the only actually useful lisp

#clojure if it weren't JVM-based... there's always one bad apple

Recently, I've received my first donation from @nlnet for suitbl, an interactive testing library for Scheme.

Their support allows me to allocate a lot of time to the development of the library. I still need to finish a few more parts before I can recommend it for adoption, but you already can take a sneak peek at the library & its usage here:

https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/guile-ares-rs/tree/master/item/src/guile/ares/suitbl.scm
https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/guile-ares-rs/tree/master/item/test/guile/ares/suitbl-test.scm

Kudos to @nlnet for backing great FOSS projects in general and me in particular :D

Gambit Scheme has very good hot reload support, similar to Common Lisp. I like it.

also allows me to compile to a executable.

- Did you know that Guile's metacommands are comming to Arei soon?
- That we already have an incredibly useful guile stack traces viewer?
- That Ares now works with stable version of Guile and doesn't require guile-next?

No? We got you covered:

https://youtu.be/VUnY1LY4Las

https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/guile-ares-rs
https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/emacs-arei

Join the discussion:
https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-discuss

Do some recreational coding, they said. It will be a fun distraction they said.

POV: tried to implement a recursive descent parser in #scheme in continuation passing style and now I have an error without a stack trace that seems impossible to debug…

I have a #Scheme script for public #mastodon api queries

fedi.scm -tags pc.cafe
#(((id . 1) (name . mastodon) (url . https://pc.cafe/tags/mastodon) (history . #(((day . 1752537600) (accounts . 9) (uses . 10)) ((day . 1752451200) (accounts . 4) (uses . 4)) ((day . 1752364800) (accounts . 11) (uses . 16)) ((day . 1752278400) (accounts . 7) (uses . 13)) ((day . 1752192000) (accounts . 14) (uses . 19)) ((day . 1752105600) (accounts . 13) (uses . 19)) ((day . 1752019200) (accounts . 7) (uses . 7))))))

I am currently looking for a #job . I am an experienced (senior) software developer/engineer with 7y of experience. If someone is looking for a capable software engineer or knows someone looking for engineers, please let me know.

I do #python #scheme #django #docker and aim for reproducible software. I learned some #devops and #ansible and can manage servers. Used to do #fullstack dev work, before everything needed to be an SPA.

I am looking for #remote work or work in #berlin or #potsdam .

#guile #scheme

i'm trying to try out guile, which i know nothing about, for some small scripting.

does it have a nice way to print tabular output in the terminal? (like common lisp's https://github.com/vindarel/cl-ansi-term)