Re: [Chicken-users] Problems with srfi-4-comprehensions

2007-03-23 Thread Alex Shinn
Hi, On 3/24/07, Ivan Raikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for adding these extensions to loopy-loop. I still haven't looked at it, as I am still fighting with SRFI-42, but you have certainly made the case for at least considering loopy-loop. Technically, I cheated, I didn't add what you

Re : Re : [Chicken-users] 3D update

2007-03-23 Thread minh thu
2007/3/23, Brandon J. Van Every <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: minh thu wrote: > > I sought a kind of german demo which featured procedural content to > make a very small exe that holds everything. It was popular at the > time but I forgot the name. .theprodukkt ? http://www.theprodukkt.com/ Yes :) th

Re: Re : [Chicken-users] 3D update

2007-03-23 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
minh thu wrote: I sought a kind of german demo which featured procedural content to make a very small exe that holds everything. It was popular at the time but I forgot the name. .theprodukkt ? http://www.theprodukkt.com/ Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___

Re: [Chicken-users] Problems with srfi-4-comprehensions

2007-03-23 Thread Ivan Raikov
Hi Alex, Thanks for adding these extensions to loopy-loop. I still haven't looked at it, as I am still fighting with SRFI-42, but you have certainly made the case for at least considering loopy-loop. And actually, I have a question: I want to have an iterator that lets me create several vectors

Re: [Chicken-users] 3D update

2007-03-23 Thread Ivan Raikov
Abelson and Sussman is also pretty good, and much deeper than the Working Programmer; but in my case, I was introduced to functional programming after I had been hacking in C for a long time, and I liked the practical-mindedness of the Working Programmer. So it might make a better introduction

Re: [Chicken-users] 3D update

2007-03-23 Thread Peter Keller
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:09:15AM -0400, Ivan Raikov wrote: >By the way, Brandon, R5RS is a terrible way to learn functional > programming. I recommend _Standard ML for the Working Programmer_, which > of course is a book about ML, but it really shows you all the powerful > "idioms" of functio

Re: [Chicken-users] 3D update

2007-03-23 Thread Ivan Raikov
By the way, Brandon, R5RS is a terrible way to learn functional programming. I recommend _Standard ML for the Working Programmer_, which of course is a book about ML, but it really shows you all the powerful "idioms" of functional programming. Going from Standard ML to Scheme had essentially a

Re : [Chicken-users] 3D update

2007-03-23 Thread minh thu
Hi Brandon, 2007/3/22, Brandon J. Van Every <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The Ogre 3D engine bored me to death. I spent 1 week reading the docs, feeling pretty miserable about it and not getting any work done. All I wanted to do was shove things into vertex buffers, and the engine really wasn't adding