[plt-scheme] Scheme Hackathon at ICFP 2009?

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Paulo J. Matos <pocm at soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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?

Does this mean that DrScheme is being ported to typed scheme?

Stephen


> 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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