Friday, August 08, 2003

Modem Lock Down is a program, written by a fellow New Zealander, to enable the modem on a Windows computer to be 'locked' preventing access to it. Useful for parents who don't want the kids dialing up to the internet at certain times. A simple idea implemented well. Marketing software like this is a much bigger task than I thought, talking to the author whom I bumped into onto the way to lunch today. I guess there is a lot of software out there and the problem is how best to get your product noticed, downloaded and paid for, without paying the earth for advertising and eating up all your revenue. 8:15:43 PM

Also via Lemonodor, Greg Graham is learning scheme and posting about it on his weblog. It's interesting reading a log of someone's first serious use of Lisp. 8:09:22 PM

Lemonodor reports that SBCL now runs on OS/X. SBCL is an open source Common Lisp system. It is one of the few Common Lisp implementations that supports native threads on Unix. 8:06:15 PM

Felix has added a 'structures' module system to Chicken Scheme. Structures is a module system based on Standard ML Modules. 8:01:38 PM

ECL v0.9b is available. ECL is an embeddable Common Lisp. Having recently implemented scripting language support for Massive it would have been fun to use this. I added scripting support using the languages Tcl and Python (the latter being surprisingly easy to embed) but having an embedded Common Lisp would have be fun. 7:56:49 PM

Tom Hawkins announces the release of Confluence 0.6. Confluence is a functional programming language for digital logic design and real time embedded software development. 7:53:05 PM