Interview With Peter Bex

Peter Bex (website) is a CHICKEN scheme maintainer and professional Clojure developer. We got to know each other on IRC over a few months and discussed: CHICKEN Scheme and its 6.0.0 release Scheme’s community and standardization process Postgres, the horrors of MySQL and (default) SQLite Clojure My ongoing core contributions mainly focus on the numerical tower code, keeping the in-core copy of the irregex library up-to-date with the upstream version (of which I’m a co-maintainer), squashing bugs and the odd security fix. I enjoy deep diving into odd corners of a code base to get a better understanding and then improve any weirdnesses I find. - His CHICKEN About Beginnings How’d you start computing? I started computing when I got an old hand-me-down C64 which came with a “learn BASIC” book targeted at kids. Of course, I wanted to write my own computer games (which I never ended up doing). Later I got a real PC for my birthday and discovered my BASIC knowledge sort of transferred (with…