Re: s-expressions, c, css and javascript

[Amirouche Boubekki]

On 2016-12-07 23:43, tantalum wrote:
> hi
>
> last time i mentioned it was a few years ago, and i just thought i let
> you know that sph-sc got some interesting updates recently, and plcss
> and sescript (as well as sph-lib) are still actively maintained.

I started playing with Guile because of your mail :)

> "sescript" is very similar to sc, it is like sc but for javascript or
> ecmascript. javascript on its own already feels more like scheme than
> c because of its use of anonymous first-class functions. sescript adds
> features like "let", implicit return and even an r6rs library form.
> sometimes i was able to copy code between scheme and sescript without
> change because it is so similar.

Do you think deeper integration/compliance with scheme land would be
best? Did you try biwascheme?

> "plcss" creates css. it is written in less than 90 lines of scheme
> (but imports a few bindings) and can offer most features of or more
> than tools like sass and lesscss.

That look like something I could put to use. Do you have examples or 
documentation?

> for details and examples, here links to the project homepages:
> sc: http://sph.mn/content/3d3
> sescript: http://sph.mn/content/413
> plcss: http://sph.mn/content/e93
>
> while we are at it, i recently made a time and calendar calculation
> library from scratch (which was pretty difficult, if anyone wants to
> check out how this can be done, see the "time" libraries in sph-lib
> (http://files.sph.mn/sourcecode/sph-lib/)) and this went into the
> calendar on http://ytilitu.xyz/ , which runs on guile.

Looks cool and useful :)

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