[plt-scheme] Scheme Hackathon at ICFP 2009?

On Friday 17 October 2008 15:03:46 Matthias Felleisen wrote:
> You might wish to consider porting as many Planet packages (and even
> core libraries) as possible to Typed Scheme, first with adapter
> modules then going into them. Warning: we do not have polymorphism
> under control and we don't support class.ss yet (on the class
> definition side).
>

Does this mean that programming using typed scheme is preferable to 
doing it untyped?

I don't try typed scheme for long now (maybe since 37x), is there any 
status page of what is supported or not or class.ss is the only thing 
not supported yet?

Cheers,

Paulo Matos

> We could advertise it as 'adding types to one untyped language in 36
> hours'. -- Matthias
>
> On Oct 16, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Noel Welsh wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > At ICFP 2007 the Haskell guys organised a "Hackathon":
> >
> >   http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hac_2007_II
> >
> > "It is a coding festival, focusing on producing and improving
> > Haskell libraries, tools and infrastructure."
> >
> > I wonder if the same, or similar, could be organised for (PLT)
> > Scheme at ICFP 2009, which will be in Edinburgh?  There are two
> > issues here:
> >
> > 1. Are there enough people interested? (I think about 10 would be
> > enough, 20 would be great)  If you're interested, let me know.
> >
> > 2. Would it be worthwhile to run tutorial sessions?  I get the
> > impression many people don't know how to develop efficiently using
> > PLT Scheme.  E.g. how to use PLaneT development links, how to
> > package code for release, how to test, how to use Scribble.  Stuff
> > like Typed Scheme would also be worth presenting tutorials on.  If
> > you'd be interested in tutorials, please let me know what kind.
> >
> > A quick note for Scheme UK people:  Ewan Higgs has revived Scheme
> > UK. A new Yahoo group has been started.  Please sign up at
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/schemeuk/ if you have not done
> > so already.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Noel
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Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk
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PhD Student @ ECS
University of Southampton, UK