Re: Technical problems [was: Re: My view on bootstrappable effort (Re: Checkpoint)]

2018-08-30 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Amirouche Boubekki writes: > On 2018-08-29 10:26, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: a) ordered key-value stores are such a primitive … >> why ordered? … > If you remove the ordered, you end up with something like gdbm. > In that situation there is no "extra structure" that you can take > advanta

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-30 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Joshua Branson writes: > It gets really interesting when you start telling these processes to > transform the underlying data. They currently have a translator that > translates an xml file into a directory tree. Imagine searching an html > file with the "find" tool. Wouldn't that be somethin

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-30 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Joshua Branson writes: >> The common lisp bindings had some pretty nifty tools, so you might find >> inspiration there. You can make a lot of difference with relatively >> little effort. > > Can you elaborate? Do you mean I can make a lot of difference by > writing translators in python or lisp

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-30 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Joshua Branson writes: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > I looked, and unfortunately parabola doesn't seem to have guile-gl > packaged. :( I could probably go do an internet search and figure out > how to install a guile module, but it's not on the highest of my list of > priorities now. I'll get

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-30 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
On 2018-08-30 15:11, Joshua Branson wrote: Amirouche Boubekki writes: Using guix on my Ubuntu I successfully installed chickadee master. Try to install guix again and report the error you have please :] Le mer. 29 août 2018 à 23:09, Joshua Branson a écrit : I will eventually. Today I won

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-30 Thread Joshua Branson
Amirouche Boubekki writes: > Using guix on my Ubuntu I successfully installed chickadee master. > > Try to install guix again and report the error you have please :] > Le mer. 29 août 2018 à 23:09, Joshua Branson a écrit : I will eventually. Today I won't have any time to do that (or I'd rathe