Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken For Ruby Programmers

[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 for people coming from the
Ruby world.

Regards,

John.

On 20/02/2008, Mark Fredrickson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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 expressed a willigness to help. The more
> help the better. I have absolutely no intention of monopolizing this
> work! I would encourage you to add your name(s) to the list. Also,
> Mario is encouraging people to add profile pages, and this might be a
> good time to do both.
>
> > We both have extensive "real world" experience with Ruby as a
> > language, might not be so
> > strong on the scheme side, but could possibly lend a hand in
> > fleshing this out.
>
> Cool. I have less Ruby experience, but I agreed to give a presentation
> on Scheme to my local Ruby user's group. I would greatly value your
> experience.
>
> > 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 question: As a Ruby
> programmer, what would you like to see in an introductory document? I
> was brainstorming ideas tonight, and I find it hard to decide whether
> to focus on very specific topics (e.g. "Instead of a Hash class, you
> can use (make-hash-table)") vs. higher level concepts (e.g. "Blocks
> are like anonymous functions.").
>
> I suspect these intro docs will be a combo of the two.
>
> Cheers,
> -Mark
>
>
>
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