Re: [Chicken-users] Re: YADT: yet another documentation 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-university:
BASIC. Pascal. C. C++.

University:
Rexx (I never discovered if this was a real language or just a  
teaching tool at my school. It's very similar to...) SML. Java. More C/ 
C++. More SML. Perl.

Post-university:
PHP. Ruby. JavaScript. Scheme (finally!)

I've been looking for my "go to" language for a long time. Ruby was a  
strong candidate, but Scheme takes what I like about Ruby and gives me  
more options. I looked at CL but found it weird and inconsistent. The  
little things matter. Now, I plan to plant myself firmly in Scheme and  
see where it takes me.

> (BTW, if nobody else is interested I'd
> be happy to try my hand at a Ruby->Chicken tutorial).

I too would be happy to help. I recently volunteered to give a Scheme  
introduction my local Ruby group.

-Mark