On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:14:45PM -0600, Mark Fredrickson wrote: > > 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.
Today during the hackathon I've created an initial document at http://chicken.wiki.br/chicken-for-ruby-programmers It tries to incorporate all that was previously there, but I had to delete the exact layout there because it was very much a presentation and made it hard to weave a narrative through it. It's not quite finished yet, but I need a rest from it. Tomorrow I'll continue with it. Feel free to fill in some examples and maybe fix some omissions/mistakes of mine. This document is the result of one big session of writing, I haven't really had the time to go over what I wrote initially, so I imagine it's a little bit rambling and perhaps parts can be shortened significantly. Feel free to help out with this, otherwise I'll see if I can do it tomorrow too. Cheers, Peter -- http://sjamaan.ath.cx -- "The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music." -- Donald Knuth
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