From bil at ccrma.Stanford.EDU  Thu Feb  5 07:14:51 2026
From: bil at ccrma.Stanford.EDU (bil at ccrma.Stanford.EDU)
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:14:51 -0800
Subject: [CM] Snd 26.1
Message-ID: <b890c31c94df7c10edbecc00e93c6d76@ccrma.stanford.edu>

Snd 26.1

s7: a few minor optimizations and internal name changes

checked: sbcl-2.6.0|1


From iainduncanlists at gmail.com  Thu Feb  5 08:08:12 2026
From: iainduncanlists at gmail.com (Iain Duncan)
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 08:08:12 -0800
Subject: [CM] S7 on Hacker News
Message-ID: <CAN9NcLyCkkt6Qf+DkB7TkeQJ+08JFKV0envoO3d07bU8+xwogw@mail.gmail.com>

For some reason, my little article "Why s7 Scheme" made it on the front
page of Hacker News today. I am trying to answer questions correctly and
intelligently, but Bill, please feel free to jump in and correct anything!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835677

I should update the docs I guess!
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From bil at ccrma.Stanford.EDU  Thu Feb  5 10:20:03 2026
From: bil at ccrma.Stanford.EDU (bil at ccrma.Stanford.EDU)
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:20:03 -0800
Subject: [CM] S7 on Hacker News
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The HN discussion looks great to me -- thanks for the
kind words!  On Slime, isn't that dependent on r6rs?
I also looked into LSP possibilities (emacs has a
server I think), but I got side-tracked.  Back in
around 1989, I looked at CL and Emacs Lisp, before
choosing Guile for Snd.  At that time, CL very much wanted
to be the "main program", and Emacs Lisp was not
easily detached from Emacs.  Eventually Guile
also chose to be the main program, so I decided
to write my own Scheme.  It was only a couple of
orders of magnitude more work than I thought it
would be, and I'm still working on it!


From iainduncanlists at gmail.com  Thu Feb  5 11:16:52 2026
From: iainduncanlists at gmail.com (Iain Duncan)
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 11:16:52 -0800
Subject: [CM] S7 on Hacker News
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	<1d5ef800426665cc6fda2e647b4c66c0@ccrma.stanford.edu>
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Thanks Bill, I hope it brings some new users to s7!

"only a couple of orders more magnitude more work" - classic comment.
Doesn't that just sum up much of our lives? :-)

iain

On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 10:20?AM <bil at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:

> The HN discussion looks great to me -- thanks for the
> kind words!  On Slime, isn't that dependent on r6rs?
> I also looked into LSP possibilities (emacs has a
> server I think), but I got side-tracked.  Back in
> around 1989, I looked at CL and Emacs Lisp, before
> choosing Guile for Snd.  At that time, CL very much wanted
> to be the "main program", and Emacs Lisp was not
> easily detached from Emacs.  Eventually Guile
> also chose to be the main program, so I decided
> to write my own Scheme.  It was only a couple of
> orders of magnitude more work than I thought it
> would be, and I'm still working on it!
>
>
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