Re: [Chicken-users] My language trajectory

2008-02-18 Thread felix winkelmann
Hm... let's try to remember... BASIC (Ti Basic, TI Extended Basic) PASCAL (in School) more BASIC 6502 machine code (decimal, later assembler) C (long and intensively, but without real success) Learned about Lisp (1.5 dialect, really) Forth (a bit) Smalltalk (temporarily) Lisp Common Lisp Scheme C+

Re: [Chicken-users] My language trajectory

2008-02-18 Thread Matthew Welland
Interesting thread. I keep doing loops that take me away from scheme and eventually I come back. Now, in part thanks to Chicken, I'm back to stay. Basic, Fortran Lisp (Autocad) HP Basic, Pascal (IC test stuff) Scheme (College, scoops and PC Scheme) Pascal, C, Assembly (College) Scheme (STk) Awk/

[Chicken-users] ANN: new egg, Stacktor

2008-02-18 Thread Mark Fredrickson
Hi all, I'm happy to announce my first egg: Stacktor. Stacktor is a DSL for programming in a stack based style, like languages such as Forth or Factor. The idea came from a talk at my local Ruby user's group by Slava Pestov on Factor. While I know Slava likes Lisp/Scheme, he made an offha

Re: [Chicken-users] egg documentation

2008-02-18 Thread Jim Ursetto
I'll also update eggdoc-svnwiki with the new syntax (or whatever final form it takes) once that gets put in the wiki. And in that vein: The four types of definitions in eggdoc are "procedure", "macro", "record" and "parameter", with an extra "signature" type which is used when you want to name a

Re: [Chicken-users] My language trajectory

2008-02-18 Thread Graham Fawcett
On Feb 16, 2008 9:05 PM, Kon Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > @ University: > (Algol W & Snobol 4 & 360 BAL & Fortran 4 - course work, not too > serious) > > [snip] > > No Work: > Python (minor, just to learn) > Io (minor, just to learn) > Chicken Scheme & C > > Strange road it has been, > Kon

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: YADT: yet another documentation thread

2008-02-18 Thread Graham Fawcett
On Feb 18, 2008 1:45 PM, Peter Bex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 05:03:47PM -0500, Graham Fawcett wrote: > > The CL community has a "My Road to Lisp" meme, where CL users write up a > > quick story on how they "arrived". I'd *love* to hear people's My Road > to > > Chicken s

Re: [Chicken-users] egg documentation

2008-02-18 Thread Ivan Raikov
Oh, okay, this looks pretty good. Not as pretty as the original eggdoc, but it will do. I will try converting some of my docs with eggdoc-svnwiki this weekend, thanks. -Ivan "Jim Ursetto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ivan, > > The symbol-table is essentially a nod to aesthetics--it jus

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: YADT: yet another documentation thread

2008-02-18 Thread John Cowan
Mark Fredrickson scripsit: > Rexx (I never discovered if this was a real language or just a > teaching tool at my school. Very real. At one time it was the only scripting-style language supported on OS/2, and it still exists in several forms, one of which (NetRexx) runs on the Java VM. See h

Re: [Chicken-users] Debian packages for some eggs now available

2008-02-18 Thread Ivan Raikov
Well, my experience with RPM is also a bit dated, and it was limited to translating custom Debian kernel packages to RedHat and Mandrake RPMs. In my case, it worked well because all three distributions used the same script to update the kernel image installation, and of course the kernel has no

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: YADT: yet another documentation thread

2008-02-18 Thread Mark Fredrickson
On Feb 18, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Peter Bex wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 05:03:47PM -0500, Graham Fawcett wrote: The CL community has a "My Road to Lisp" meme, where CL users write up a quick story on how they "arrived". I'd *love* to hear people's My Road to Chicken stories. Pre-universit

Re: [Chicken-users] new domains.

2008-02-18 Thread Elf
if you cant fix it on webserver end, we have some potential fixes on this end but it would be a lot more work for the Very Nice Person who has been handling dns issues since the computer fire. -elf On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Peter Bex wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:49:15AM -0800, Elf wrote: ww

Re: [Chicken-users] new domains.

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Bex
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:49:15AM -0800, Elf wrote: > > www.. are all now cnames for > www.call-with-current-continuation.org ... which isnt working too hot. > > advice please? Looks like call-cc's vhosting isn't set up to dispatch those domains. Felix: Can you fix this on the webserver end? C

[Chicken-users] new domains.

2008-02-18 Thread Elf
www.. are all now cnames for www.call-with-current-continuation.org ... which isnt working too hot. advice please? -elf ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] new domains!

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Bex
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 03:03:22PM -0800, Elf wrote: > > chickenscheme.org > chickenscheme.net > chicken-scheme.com > chicken-scheme.org > chicken-scheme.net > > (someone has already parked on chickenscheme.com, unfortunately. this should > prevent people from doing anything nasty to the namespa

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: YADT: yet another documentation thread

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Bex
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 05:03:47PM -0500, Graham Fawcett wrote: > The CL community has a "My Road to Lisp" meme, where CL users write up a > quick story on how they "arrived". I'd *love* to hear people's My Road to > Chicken stories. A little painful to admit, but I started out with BASIC on the C

Re: [Chicken-users] passing on of chicken maintainership

2008-02-18 Thread Alejandro Forero Cuervo
I just want to say Thank You, Felix, for all the great work you've put in making Chicken. It is my favorite programming implementation/environment and has definitely made much life much easier. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Alejo. http://azul.freaks-unidos.net/ _

Re: [Chicken-users] egg documentation

2008-02-18 Thread Alejandro Forero Cuervo
> By the way, on the subject of wiki markup, I'd like to put in a plug > for marking index entries. Hmm, what do you mean? Alejo, a bit slow today. http://azul.freaks-unidos.net/ ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.non

Re: [Chicken-users] Debian packages for some eggs now available

2008-02-18 Thread Leonardo Valeri Manera
On 18/02/2008, Harri Haataja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's been a while since I was last involved with rpm, but even then it > was certainly worth it making different spec files (and/or taking care > you don't use the wrong ones). It's not just the dependencies and > paths (which obviously matt

Re: [Chicken-users] sqlite3 wtf

2008-02-18 Thread Ozzi
Upgrading to sqlite 3.5.6 on the linux box seems to have fixed it. Ozzi wrote: The sqlite3 egg seems to have issues on Dreamhost (Linux). Works fine on OS X here. ;; Works fine... (sqlite3:prepare (sqlite3:open "db.sqlite3") "select * from foo") ;; but do the same thing again... (sqlite3:prep

Re: [Chicken-users] Debian packages for some eggs now available

2008-02-18 Thread Harri Haataja
On 13/02/2008, Ivan Raikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, the Debian egg packages can be easily converted to RPM by the > alien program, but there might be slight differences in how each RPM > distribution does its library version numbering. E.g. the estraier egg > depends on libestraier8 pac

Re: [Chicken-users] new egg etiquette

2008-02-18 Thread felix winkelmann
On Feb 17, 2008 9:01 PM, Jim Ursetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. The toplevel directory is for release 2 only, and will > probably be renamed later to release/2, but has not yet > been to retain backwards compatibility. > Moving all the stuff into a "release/2" directory should probably wor

Re: [Chicken-users] documentation issues...

2008-02-18 Thread felix winkelmann
On Feb 17, 2008 12:52 PM, Alejandro Forero Cuervo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > what remains relevant is that its bloody hard to document anything > > even slightly nontrivial in it. > > While this is not my perception, I've heard this claim in the past. I > would like to see if Svnwiki can be