Gwen's funny pages
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.
02. March 2020
Loko Scheme is an R6RS Scheme compiler that runs on Linux and bare metal. To be useful on bare metal it needs device drivers. One of the more interesting device drivers is the virtio net driver, which paves the way for more virtio drivers.
10. November 2019
Graphics. Video! How do you get even basic graphics running on a PC? One way is to use the expansion ROM on the graphics card. Loko Scheme 0.3.4 is out now and comes with a rudimentary VBE driver that uses this method.
02. October 2019
Some readers already know this and a few have suspected. I’ve been working on a new R6RS Scheme compiler for a while. Now I have released it as free software. Read on to learn the many wonderful drawbacks of this niche compiler.