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@momo cool!

Well then, please have a listen to the episodes of the #LispyGopherClimate podcast that me, @kentpitman and @screwlisp did these past few weeks:

• Kent Pitman presents his lisp condition system implemented for python
• Kent Pitman, Scott Zimmermann, Ramin Honary, Screwlisp: Lisp Conditions in Python
• Common Lisp condition handling lore
• Common Lisp condition system, code review of my programming example
• Common Lisp condition handling w/ Kent Pitman, Ramin Honary

#tech #software #Lisp #CommonLisp #Scheme #SchemeLang #R7RS #MITScheme #Guile #GuileScheme

@screwlisp @kentpitman I’m just reading up on the MIT-Scheme condition system. Recent efforts to standardize this are defined in SRFI-255: “Restarting conditions”.

An older standards condition systems in Scheme was defined in SRFI-35: “Conditions”. And #Guile users can use the Guile implementation of SRFI-35 to make use of it.

I wish I had known about this two weeks ago when we first started talking about it on the #LispyGopherClimate show, but better late than never, I guess.

#tech #software #Lisp #CommonLisp #Scheme #SchemeLang #R7RS #MITScheme #Guile #GuileScheme

Having followed the whole #GuileEmacs debate a few years ago, I was (and still am) surprised that #Edwin, the Emacs-family editor integrated into #MITScheme, never came up in these discussions.

While it certainly lacks the bazillion libraries that power #Emacs, Edwin is as GNU Emacs-like as it gets - and it's programmable in #Scheme! It has a great buffer/listener combo, an #Info reader, shell facilities, you name it. Any Emacs user would feel right at home in it. And also: Scheme, man, Scheme!

So, obviously, a Scheme-powered Emacs is not only possible, it has actually existed for quite a while now.