Previously to Scheme I was playing with Ruby. One feature of Scheme that got me hooked was s-expressions. I still struggle to explain s-expressions verbally. There are continual debates about s-expressions vs XML vs xyz on the interweb. It would be cool to include an introduction to s-expressions for people coming from the Ruby world.
Regards, John. On 20/02/2008, Mark Fredrickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Raymond, > > On Feb 19, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Raymond Medeiros wrote: > > > Hi, myself and my friend Liam Irish were considering working on this > > portion of the hack-a-thon. > > So I'm throwing it out there, I noticed that Mark Fredrickson is > > already on the list for Ruby. > > Great! I know Peter Bex also expressed a willigness to help. The more > help the better. I have absolutely no intention of monopolizing this > work! I would encourage you to add your name(s) to the list. Also, > Mario is encouraging people to add profile pages, and this might be a > good time to do both. > > > We both have extensive "real world" experience with Ruby as a > > language, might not be so > > strong on the scheme side, but could possibly lend a hand in > > fleshing this out. > > Cool. I have less Ruby experience, but I agreed to give a presentation > on Scheme to my local Ruby user's group. I would greatly value your > experience. > > > BTW, > > I love the "Chicken for X Programmers" I think that this is > > precisely the kind of thing Chicken > > needs to gain more exposure. I welcome any comments suggestions on > > this. > > Neither a comment nor suggestion, but a question: As a Ruby > programmer, what would you like to see in an introductory document? I > was brainstorming ideas tonight, and I find it hard to decide whether > to focus on very specific topics (e.g. "Instead of a Hash class, you > can use (make-hash-table)") vs. higher level concepts (e.g. "Blocks > are like anonymous functions."). > > I suspect these intro docs will be a combo of the two. > > Cheers, > -Mark > > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicken-users mailing list > Chicken-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users > _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users