ChapterZero

I’ve been trying to implement a polynomial factorization program in Scheme, but it’s not coming along. It seems like the routines work fine when I’m testing them separately, but when they start calling each other, the bugs come out of the woodwork. I’m about to scrap it and start over…

On the up side, I found yet another wonderful piece of software, JScheme, a Java-based scheme interpreter/compiler. It can be used as a standard REPL/non-interactive Scheme interpreter, call Java object methods from within scripts, and compile Scheme code to .java files which can then be compiled to bytecode or used as Java packages. Seems like a perfect way to delegate tasks Scheme handles best to Scheme, and those Java handles best to Java. I love it, and I haven’t even used it yet.

I wonder if anyone out there is working on a Swing GUI for it?

Possibly relevant posts:

• The sad reality of Scheme (3/11/2005)
• Java Postscript interpreter! (12/22/2004)
• Java does Regular Expressions (1/8/2005)