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looking back at things which influenced my computer-related activity

my scheme history

in 2000 we didn't organize our annually tour to eastern europe. So i spent 2 weeks at the seaside, (but in house), learning infodocks/hyperbole (ex www.beopen.com), and thus also a little of xemacs. (i read the html 4.0 reference too, inside w3/xemacs)

Influenced by hyperbole, I make mdb: a database frontend for emacs. using eieio (clos-in-elisp).

May ? i start to use sawfish (version .37 maybe) In those months i hack on Embperl + mod_perl, and make our web site. First time exposed to the idea of closure (book: advanced perl programming). Extensive studying of apache, mod_perl.
September i start to mail some mails to Sawfish mailing list (in short SF ML). which end in December w/ some people criticizing my too loud criticism (of sawfish.el) However i learn about lisp-1, and the lack of symbols in scheme/rep; i start to suspect, that thas is a serious shortage for an interactive program (w/ incremenal development). I hack up a solution (for me) for redefiniing hooks (with the help of artificially binding functions and symbols).

winter/spring 2002 i probably come over SCSH again (i had already the tarball years ago, and was curious about the hostname swiss (.mit.edu)).
2002 Brussel Fosdem: i didn't understand what 'kde bindings' could be about. however i attended (w/ my wife) lectures on Gnomemeeting, Mono (Boehm GC mentioned). Stallman lecture ....
i start to read about gnome (Orbit), reference counting mentioned.
April: i connect to IRC (b/c the SCSH website mentions it) and i decide to try Gentoo.
Autumn 2002: i realize how much time i gained by using gentoo. I suspect that w/ debian i could gain even more.
Chrisb convinces me to try Gauche. I start to like it, b/c extending it is far simpler that scsh. And i see no way ahead w/o extensive libraries (like perl)
i also install (for a few hours) a Mzscheme web server, and see it's cool. But i don't 'trust' mzscheme, and ignore it.

many attempts to replace perl scripts w/ new scsh. But mainly only complement. No real replacement.
my Sawfish C extensions is growing. I learn basics of Grabbing (xlib). i hadn't any idea about such stuff, before.
in spring i find & fix the XKB bug. I start to seriously use GDB. I start to have plans for many "C-only" areas. But they're too distant for now.
June playing w/ Debian.
plans for pl/gauche + mod_gauche.
reading "thinking in C++", and intel's x86 references.
end december: working on the Fork extension. After ~7 months from the idea.

My first modification in the kernel. Just debugging :)

-- autofs is easy to grasp.

-- pl/java could provide a reference for pl/gauche.

Updated: 2005-12-02

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