Re: [Chicken-users] Thanks Chicken Scheme

[Mathieu Desrochers]

Hi Peter,

This project was my first experience using Linux, and

as you guessed, I wanted to use it as a learning experience.

Writing foreign interfaces by hand allowed be to write C code,

which challenged my memory management techniques and gave

me an opportunity to invoke make and gcc. By the way, the 

Chicken Scheme FFI is really easy to use.

Also, coding against FastCGI finally dispelled all the

abstractions found at my .NET day job, and it felt good

working with streams and raw HTTP messages.

Your documentation is clear and I hand no troubles finding

the eggs list you mentioned, of which the length is amazing.

Guess I was just in a masochistic mood :)

Cheers,

Mathieu

> Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 00:51:10 +0200
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> Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Thanks Chicken Scheme
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> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 05:03:24PM -0400, Mathieu Desrochers wrote:
> > Many thanks for making it possible to write software in scheme.
> > I just spent a few months hacking a web application handled by the Chicken Scheme runtime.Just posting a link to the project page in the hope of giving something back.
> > http://mathieu-desrochers.github.io/Scheme-Experimentations/
> > In the unlikely event you find anything useful there, please feel free to use it :)
>
> Hi Mathieu!
>
> I think it's great you've put so much effort into proving that Scheme
> can be used for "real world" applications. Especially the webpage looks
> really slick :)
>
> I'd be interested to know why you chose to create your own HTTP,
> FastCGI, JSON and SQLite implementations. For each of those things,
> there are several implementations in the CHICKEN egg repository to
> choose from: http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-projects/egg-index-4.html
>
> Were they somehow lacking in features, were you unable to find them
> or did you decide to implement your own as a learning experience?
> It would be great if you would document your experiences, so that
> others may learn from them!
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
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