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Date:Sun, 25 Apr 2004 10:00:48 +0000 (UTC) 
Subject:Re: RE: Robin Popplestone 
From:A . Sloman 
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On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Brent Fulgham wrote:

[AS]
> > Just think: if it had not been for Robin, some of us would have
> > had to be Lisp programmers....

[BF]
> Speaking of which ... maybe it would be nice to include Dr.
> Popplestone's Scheme
> implementation with Poplog?  I was thinking about putting it in the
> Debian package
> (assuming there are no license issues -- I'm pretty sure there are
> not.)
>
> -Brent

With Robin's permission I fetched his scheme package and made it
available at the bham site in a tar ball. If requested I could
produce a browseable version too.

It is mentioned briely here:
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html#scheme

Robin used it for teaching at University of Massachusets at Amherst
(Umass) for several years. But it was never properly packaged for
public use. I made a few changes to make it work outside Umass
(e.g. replacing full file names with relative ones), but I am
not a scheme user and I can't tell how complete or robust it is.

I think I still also have his answers to the programming 'homework'
exercises in the package, if I can remember where I put them....

Aaron