On 4/26/07, skaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given an intended market of C++ programmers,
I don't really see Felix's target being "C++ programmers" per se, but more so "people who would really rather program in some other language but need the speed / libraries / etc. that C++ offers". At least, that's why I'm interested in it, having never written a line of C++ (that wasn't just C) in my life. For people like me the current tutorial is just fine (in that it provides a good "translation" reference from other similar languages). However I agree it would be beneficial to have a step-by-step mixed C / Felix tutorial, say writing a small program that interfaces with a common library such as zlib or ncurses in an ad-hoc way, to show how easy it is to bind to C functions. At the same time it should showcase the key features of Felix. Some ideas: * Extract http:// links and e-mail addresses from gzipped HTML files. At the least this would showcase regexp matching and binding to zlib, and could even use fthreads to interact with zlib. * Interactive file browser (show a list of files, allow the user to select one, maybe show a preview). Would showcase binding with ncurses and could probably also introduce some Felix data structures. FWIW the O'Caml ncurses binding tutorial is probably the one I read the most :) so that's why I'm thinking similar things for Felix. - Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
