Re: Best Version(s) for "A Tractable Scheme Implementation"

On Aug 20, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Ian Tegebo wrote:

> I'm reading through "A Tractable Scheme Implementation".  I've found
> that a draft from October 1993 is more widespread than a later draft
> (Jan 31 1994):
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> http://mumble.net/~jar/pubs/lsc.pdf
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> I'd like to have "all the pieces" of scheme-48 together and running as
> I go through the paper.  Unfortunately, previous releases only date
> back to 1998:
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> http://s48.org/previous-releases.html
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> That said, I've found 0.36 (dating 3/22/94) in the old Indiana Scheme
> Repository:
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> =
ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/scheme-repository/imp/scheme48-0.36.tar.gz
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> But, there's a note in 0.36's README:
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> "The Pre-Scheme compiler, which produces scheme48vm.c from vm/*.scm, =
is
> distributed separately.  For information contact
> [email protected]."
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> I've found a number of notes about 0.36 in the archives, a couple of =
examples:
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> Subject: "Makefile.in buglet in scheme48"
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.scheme.scheme48/742/match=3D0.36
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> A set of compatible versions (with a small patch):
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.scheme.scheme48/534/match=3D0.36
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> Richard commenting on the laxness of version compatibility at that =
time:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.scheme.scheme48/541/match=3D0.36
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> Chris Patti revealing that 0.36 onward were not meant for release:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.scheme.scheme48/839/match=3D0.36
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> So, it appears that 0.52 may be my best bet.  Finally, my questions:
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> a) What's the suggested version of "A Tractable Scheme =
Implementation"?

That would be the final version as published:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01018614

> b) What's the "most useful" version of scheme-48 to hack while reading
> the above?

I would think whatever version was current at the time the article was =
written.
I don't know which one that would be; I'd have to look either at file =
write dates, README dates, or announcement emails... and that's a chore =
you could do as easily as I could. I think Mike has pointed you in the =
right direction.

Delete that notifications stuff! At the time the Internet was quite =
small and that kind of thing was not the no-no it is now.

Jonathan
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> At this point, my answers are:
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> a) http://mumble.net/~jar/pubs/lsc.pdf
> b) http://s48.org/0.52/scheme48-0.52.tgz
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> Lastly,
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> I'm on Linux 3.2 Ubuntu SMP x86_64.
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> Built doing:
> cd scheme48-0.52
> ./configure && make -t .notify && make CFLAGS=3D-m32 && make check && =
./go
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> Thanks,
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> Ian Tegebo