In an interview, CHICKEN Scheme maintainer and co-maintainer of the irregex library Peter Bex described his path from a childhood C64 into BASIC, C, and eventually Lisp/Scheme, which he studied at university through The Little Lisper/Schemer and SICP. He discussed his ongoing core contributions to CHICKEN Scheme, including numerical tower code, irregex upkeep, bug fixes and security patches, alongside broader topics like Scheme standardization, databases, and Clojure.
alexalejandre.com
· 2026-10-02
A software commentator examines why Lisp code, with its uniform prefix notation and heavy parenthesization, is widely perceived as harder to read than C-style languages like Python or Java. The piece rejects the common Lisp community explanation that unreadability is purely a matter of unfamiliarity, and instead draws on cognitive science to propose a deeper structural cause tied to parenthesis placement.
paultm.nl
· 2026-09-28
A developer has published OrgWebAlchemy, an open-source Guile Scheme library that parses Org-mode documents into an abstract syntax tree and renders them as HTML via SXML, using Parsing Expression Grammars instead of regular expressions. The source code is hosted on Codeberg, and the author says it lets Org files be exported to HTML without requiring Emacs, and is already integrated into a project called LucidPlan.
jointhefreeworld.org
· 2026-09-24
In remarks tied to AI policy, President Trump said the United States is renaming artificial intelligence to 'super intelligence' in official documents, arguing the word 'artificial' wrongly implies the technology is fake. He also dismissed warnings about AI risks as coming from the same critics he blames for past controversies like Russia collusion claims and climate change alarms, and vowed the US would maintain its lead over China.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-22
A new Emacs package, maak.el, lets developers discover, inspect and run Maak tasks directly from the editor's minibuffer. Maak is a build and automation tool that replaces traditional Makefiles with GNU Guile Scheme, and the plugin adds completion support, argument prompting, and asynchronous execution through Emacs's native compile system.
codeberg.org
· 2026-09-08
A developer has released SLED (Schemy Lisp en DOS), a symbolic LISP interpreter derived from Kilo LISP but stripped of features like macros and augmented with others, built to run on DOS environments including FreeDOS, MS-DOS, and emulators such as DOSBox. The project ships a compiled binary release alongside source code repositories and documentation covering its data types, symbols, and standard library.
sled.neocities.org
· 2026-09-06
Federal prosecutors in Nevada allege Brent Kovar ran a Ponzi scheme that fraudulently raised $24 million from roughly 400 investors by claiming he used AI software on a supercomputer to mine and verify cryptocurrency. He promised annual returns of 15 to 30 percent with a full money-back guarantee, but investigators say he paid earlier investors with money from new ones and could not honor his guarantees. Kovar now faces 11 counts of wire fraud, two counts of mail fraud, and two counts of money laundering, carrying a maximum combined sentence of 280 years.
futurism.com
· 2026-08-30
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