On Wednesday 20 October 2004 16:44, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > > > I have been trying to write some scripts to automate tasks but > > > find that I have some trouble using scheme. Although I am > > > experienced in other languages I find scheme quite difficult to > > > master as I can't seem to find any language references. There > > > are lots of tutorials and samples showing how to create scripts > > > but nothing that I could find that actually describes the > > > language, functions available, etc. > > The big problem w/ Gimp's scheme is that they use a version that is > not really respected by anyone and that's horribly out-of-date. I > think they did that in the spirit of keeping things simple, but > it's horribly backfired. > > Scheme is one of the most ingenious languages around. I'll be > describing some of its more interesting features this coming year > in several IBM DeveloperWorks articles. Unfortunately, many of > these features aren't available on GIMP's scheme. > > For learning scheme as a language, some good books are: > > Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days (available on the web > somewhere) How to Design Programs > Simply Scheme > > a more advanced introduction, which every serious programmer should > read sometime in their life, is > > Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs > > In addition, the scheme standard is only 50 pages, and is a pretty > easy read. You can get it online at schemers.org or a hardcopy > from my website at http://www.cafepress.com/bartlettpublish.9174125 >
The GIMPÅ Scheme is in the proccess of beying updated by another interpreter - the Tiny-fu extension by Kevin is doing that. I do notknow if that is an up to date implementation, however. All I know is that it currently doesn't support multi-byte character encodings - i.e. UTF-8, just like GIMP's native script-fu. > Jon > ---- > Learn to program using Linux assembly language > http://www.cafeshops.com/bartlettpublish.8640017 _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
