Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken For Ruby Programmers

2008-02-23 Thread Peter Bex
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

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken For Ruby Programmers

2008-02-23 Thread Graham Fawcett
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Peter Bex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today during the hackathon I've created an initial document at http://chicken.wiki.br/chicken-for-ruby-programmers I'm not a Ruby user, but this looks pretty good. I just committed an edit (r8734) to your discussion of

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken For Ruby Programmers

2008-02-20 Thread john
Previously to Scheme I was playing with Ruby. One feature of Scheme that got me hooked was s-expressions. I still struggle to explain s-expressions verbally. There are continual debates about s-expressions vs XML vs xyz on the interweb. It would be cool to include an introduction to s-expressions

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken For Ruby Programmers

2008-02-20 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi folks, On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:06:27 -0600 Mark Fredrickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: https://galinha.ucpel.tche.br/cgi-bin/svnwiki/default/chicken-for-ruby-programmers Just a sidenote: this URL can be shortened to http://chicken.wiki.br/chicken-for-ruby-programmers Keep the good work! Best

[Chicken-users] Chicken For Ruby Programmers

2008-02-19 Thread Raymond Medeiros
Hi, myself and my friend Liam Irish were considering working on this portion of the hack-a-thon. So I'm throwing it out there, I noticed that Mark Fredrickson is already on the list for Ruby. We both have extensive real world experience with Ruby as a language, might not be so strong on the

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken For Ruby Programmers

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Fredrickson
Hi Raymond, On Feb 19, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Raymond Medeiros wrote: Hi, myself and my friend Liam Irish were considering working on this portion of the hack-a-thon. So I'm throwing it out there, I noticed that Mark Fredrickson is already on the list for Ruby. Great! I know Peter Bex also

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken For Ruby Programmers

2008-02-19 Thread raymond medeiros
http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-an-acceptable-lisp http://tech.rufy.com/2006/11/functional-programming-in-ruby.html were the articles i was thinking about in particular, might make for a good starting place for ideas on how to organize the wiki entry. we should

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken For Ruby Programmers

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Fredrickson
Hi Raymond, I've added my 1st draft presentation outline: https://galinha.ucpel.tche.br/cgi-bin/svnwiki/default/chicken-for-ruby-programmers This is just my rambling thoughts on what my Ruby group might be interested in. On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:37 PM, raymond medeiros wrote: I actually have

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken For Ruby Programmers

2008-02-19 Thread raymond medeiros
something else to consider, would it be prudent to create an introductory tutorial on spiffy/web-unity/mettle and show how one might pursue web development for people who currently use a framework like RoR? On Feb 19, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Mark Fredrickson wrote: Hi Raymond, On Feb 19,

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken For Ruby Programmers

2008-02-19 Thread raymond medeiros
I actually have a profile page. Well specific correlations between languages would be good, I think for this document it would be best to show how things like map work in ruby and in scheme. There are a few articles out there under various names you might want to read up on. Search for

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken For Ruby Programmers

2008-02-19 Thread raymond medeiros
this is a good outline. hopefully i'll have some time tomorrow to start writing a few sections and we'll see how it goes. On Feb 19, 2008, at 11:06 PM, Mark Fredrickson wrote: Hi Raymond, I've added my 1st draft presentation outline: