Log of changes on this site
August 1998 through July 1999

Please refer to ChangeLog.html for the most recent changes

July 4, 1999

• A network file system over HTTP: remote access and modification of files and files, a combined paper and a Freenix Track talk presented at 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
• Remote "command prompt" (rsh, pseudo-telnet) over HTTP

May - June, 1999

• Added references to the latest version of the HTTP Network Filesystem code and a USENIX'99 paper that describes the system, to a new HTTPFS page
• A tcp-transactor-- a shell tool
• AND-LET* (formerly LAND*) proposal has become a final Scheme Request For Implementation #2
• A new web page Scheme/web.html dedicated to Web, HTML and CGI programming in Scheme
• Specifically noted a piece of code that validates a URL and parses HTTP server's responses
• Counting dotted pairs and other leaves in trees of Scheme objects, a USENET article

April 4, 1999

• Added a clarification that LinAlg, FFT, c++advio, and Grayscale Image Processing packages are and have always been in the Public Domain
• Noted that the LinAlg 4.3 and FFT 1.2 packages have been submitted to netlib and BeWare, and are available from these archives' distribution sites
• extended file names now include bi-directional pipes and tcp://-like filenames; these "file" names can now be passed to regular fstream, fopen() etc. functions
• Added a Solaris 2.6 solution to the problem of "Patch-free User-level Link-time intercepting of system calls and interposing on library functions"

March 5, 1999

• cgi-util.scm, added _:CGI:lookup and promise-nice-xml-string
• vext-io.scm, added test cases for bi-directional pipes and tcp://-like filenames
• os.c, better handling of intended alarms and unintended open() call interruptions
• util.scm, added port-copy and list-tail-diff
• env.scm, added env#->alist procedure
• Makefile, Makefile.incl, OS-spec.scm
• myenv.scm, added a string-null? macro per Underground String Lib
• vinput-parse.scm, vmyenv.scm with test cases for new procedures above

January - February 1999

• Lambda abstractions in C++ vs. Scheme
• Testing Scheme functions and special forms: catching expected errors, a USENET article
• New versions of LinAlg (v4.3) and FFT (v1.2) packages
• Lazy Fibonacci stream in Scheme, a USENET article

December 11, 1998

• Added another poster presented at the 1998 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP'98), Functional Style in C++: Closures, Late Binding, and Lambda Abstractions
• Platform-independent higher-order distributed SQL database interface, a USENET article that introduces the interface and discusses its localhost and distributed implementations.

November 6, 1998

• Discussion of keyword and default arguments of a function, from a general -- variable lookup -- and a C++-specific points of view.
  • Added a reference to an old unpublished article: Database as-a (OO)P language: late binding, delegation, inheritance, and the Fragile Base Class problem [.ps.gz, 33K]
• Expressing formal proofs in a computer language: Y Scheme: Scheme as its own meta-language
• A USENET article touting treaps as an efficient implementation for priority queues

September - October 1998

• A lazy CGI namespace in Scheme
• A delegation language to request weather products, and a scheme of its interpretation
• "Bridging HTTP FS and a Network File System MCFS" is now described on HTTP Virtual File System pages
• Added a very brief description of a truly-Scheme SQL tool
• Added OS:remove-at-exit and the corresponding validation code to the POSIX interface package

August 7, 1998

• Added a source code archive of a UDP Link Access Plugin for a TLT30G broadcasting system, described in an article "Distributing Data Using TLT30G," Dr.Dobb's Journal, #289, September 1998, pp.34-40, 92-93.
• An archive of Prolog code is introduced. Among other things, it includes code to solve Dr. Ecco's Lines of Fire' Puzzle.

September 1997 through July 1998

December 1995 through August 1996