- We managed to break the wiki a couple of times, resulting in
improvements
to svnwiki.
- New syntax for documenting eggs in the wiki was implemented
(http://chicken.wiki.br/wiki-syntax-chicken).
- We worked on Chicken tutorials for 'blub' programmers, for several
values of 'blub': Ruby, Python and PHP. A Chicken for Java
tutorial
is currently in the works, too.
- A document about how to hack on Chicken's core and the release
process
is currently underway.
- The eggs for release 2 of Chicken have found their way from the
toplevel directory of the repository to the release/2 subdirectory,
resulting in a clearer layout of the repos.
- A number of programs on the Great Language Shootout game at
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ have been improved so that
Chicken
will get a fairer comparison to other languages who have been
spending more time on optimizing their shootout programs.
As you can see, the results are quite impressive. I would like to
thank
everyone who participated and made this possible!
What's next?
------------
The hackathon may be over, but work will continue. We should keep up
the momentum that we have gained during the hackathon and continue
working
on the things to do. There are still lots of eggs with old-style HTML
documentation. These need to be translated to wiki syntax. It should
be possible to automatically convert the eggdoc documentation, so
these
are not our priority right now. Furthermore, the
chicken-for-blub-programmers documents can use some attention of
'blub'
language experts.
But most important of all, feel free to work on whatever *you* find
interesting and fun, to improve Chicken even more!
Thanks again, everyone!
Cheers,
Peter
--
http://sjamaan.ath.cx
--
"The process of preparing programs for a digital computer
is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically
and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic
experience much like composing poetry or music."
-- Donald Knuth
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