Re: [Chicken-users] ideas

[felix]

Peter Keller wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 10:09:04PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> > > Perhaps we need to make the chicken webpages bigger than a single
> > > page? :-) A page listing "ongoing projects" and "requests for
> > > implementation" (as it were) might be handy...
> 
> I've been wondering about this. In addition, if this change happens, we
> should have a "known uses" section where people who write applications
> in chicken should get an entry with a little snippet about what the
> application is.  That way, prospective chicken users will see that it is
> being used for real systems(that might be similar to what they want to
> do, making them think that using chicken would be a good solution for
> them since it maps from the problem domain they have) and therefore
> has been beat on for a while and most of the serious bugs shaken out.
> 

Good idea. I want to address the extension mechanism first, but then
(if there is nothing other pressing) I will give the web-page a
facelift.
Something like the above is definitely useful. 
Unfortunately I haven't heard yet of any "known uses"... ;-)


cheers,
felix