Re: [racket] Gambit Scheme for the iPhone and iPad

2011-06-05 Thread Prabhakar Ragde
On 6/4/11 10:55 PM, Nevo wrote: Have you by chance bought that app and actually run on your iPhone/iPad? Yes. It's only 99 cents. I have not used it extensively, since I only noticed it yesterday afternoon. Also I have not used my iPad in general extensively! I put it on my iPhone also, just

Re: [racket] Gambit Scheme for the iPhone and iPad

2011-06-05 Thread Jukka Tuominen
... > > Next what Marc Feely's app needs is some sort of community, like > Scratch, so people can share their wizardry, but for that the > ability to organize and modularize scripts would need to be > improved. The downside is if people get too clever, Apple could > get hyperparental and pul

Re: [racket] Gambit Scheme for the iPhone and iPad

2011-06-05 Thread Geoffrey S. Knauth
This is wonderful news, thanks. I don't see anything in the way of in-app documentation, which means going into it you kind of need to know what you're doing. You can look things up in Safari or a PDF reader, but on the iPhone switching apps is a bit cumbersome, especially for me since I have

Re: [racket] Gambit Scheme for the iPhone and iPad

2011-06-04 Thread Noel Welsh
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Richard Cleis wrote: > ... I don't know how extensively; I just now downloaded it at this party. This is nerdcore. I stand in awe. N. _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinf

Re: [racket] Gambit Scheme for the iPhone and iPad

2011-06-04 Thread Richard Cleis
On Jun 4, 2011, at 7:55 PM, Nevo wrote: > Hi Prabhakar! > This is a nice sharing. Have you by chance bought that app and actually run > on your iPhone/iPad? I just wonder whether this is console based REPL only, It has an editor that allows for multiple 'scripts'. When one is run, the envi

Re: [racket] Gambit Scheme for the iPhone and iPad

2011-06-04 Thread Nevo
Hi Prabhakar! This is a nice sharing. Have you by chance bought that app and actually run on your iPhone/iPad? I just wonder whether this is console based REPL only, or having graphics support as DrRacket does, how is the performance (pure interpreter mode or JIT enabled?). I'm not clear if Apple

[racket] Gambit Scheme for the iPhone and iPad

2011-06-04 Thread Prabhakar Ragde
I stopped reading comp.lang.scheme some time ago, so I wasn't aware until just now that in early May, Marc Feeley succeeded in placing a Gambit Scheme universal app (iPhone/iPad) in the App Store. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gambit-repl/id434534076?mt=8 This is the first indication I had th