Ryan Culpepper

I am a fifth-year PhD student in the Programming Research Lab at Northeastern University. My advisor is Matthias Felleisen.

For the Fall 2006 semester, I am a TA for CSU 211.

Publications

• Ryan Culpepper and Matthias Felleisen. A Stepper for Scheme Macros. Scheme 2006
• Ryan Culpepper, Scott Owens, and Matthew Flatt. Syntactic Abstraction in Component Interfaces. GPCE 2005
• Ryan Culpepper and Matthias Felleisen. Taming Macros. GPCE 2004

Software

• The Macro Stepper (available as part of DrScheme)
  A stepper for PLT Scheme's macro expansion process. The configurable macro-hiding policy lets the programmer direct the stepper to display certain macros as if they were primitive forms.
• Common Larceny (Larceny for .NET)
  A .NET port of the Larceny/Twobit Scheme implementation originally developed by Will Clinger and Lars Hansen. With Dale Vaillancourt and Joe Marshall; now developed by Felix Klock and Jesse Tov.
• SchemeUnit
  A unit testing framework for PLT Scheme with extensible test and assertion forms. Textual, graphical, and DrScheme-integrated test runners available.
• spgsql
  A library for connecting to PostgreSQL database servers over TCP.