Panicz Maciej Godek writes:
> Therefore, I wrote Compan, which is meant to be a "Community Package
> Manager" for Guile.
Unfortunately, it's specific to guile.
Wouldn't it be better to have a system that could be used to distribute
scheme libraries, including portable libraries and portability
Matthew Keeter writes:
> I’m currently embedding Python in a C / C++ application that evaluates
> user-provided scripts.
>
> Obviously, this is terribly unsafe: user-provided scripts can execute
> arbitrary malicious actions,
> and there’s no good way to sandbox Python in a desktop context.
>
>
Marko Rauhamaa writes:
> GOOPS also, surprisingly, seems to be decades behind in trying to
> present objects as collections of slots.
>
> I once heard this story. The French king had a royal ball in honor of
> the birthday of the French queen. When some lordly guests presented
> their gift, a pai
Darren Hoo writes:
> It is way too slow to read numbers from a file simply by using `read'
>
> for example a txt file contains 10,000,000 line of numbers:
To get speed, I would:
1- open a binary file,
2- perform double-buffering I/O, (ie. read a buffer while you process
another),
3- assu
Alexandru Cojocaru writes:
> Hi,
>
> from the GUILE manual [0]:
>
> `eq?' tests just for the same object (essentially a pointer
> comparison)
> `eqv?' extends `eq?' to look at the value of numbers and
> characters.
>
> this is what I get:
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (eq? 3 (+ 1 2))
>
ri...@happyleptic.org writes:
>> If you should read only one, then only SICP (and watch the videos).
>
> Out of curiousity, what's interresting about the videos ?
It's easier to watch them than to read the book ;-)
Multi-channel is better for learning. Reading the book is nice for
the symbolic
anog...@gmx.at writes:
> Hi awesome hackers,
>
> i'm a noob. Which book is better for learning programming?
>
> * SICP http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/
> * How to Design Programs http://htdp.org/2003-09-26/
> * anything else
Read both, in this order:
1. How
anog...@gmx.at writes:
> We learn C# at school... and I'd like to write beautiful free
> software. However, I'm still a bloody beginner. So could you give me
> please some nice book tips about C, C++ and of course Guile? It
> would be sooo awesome.
AFAIK, C# is quite different from C or C++. It i
