Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken For Ruby Programmers

[raymond medeiros]

I actually have a profile page.  Well specific correlations between  
languages would be good, I think for this document it would be best to  
show how things like
map work in ruby and in scheme.  There are a few articles out there  
under various names you might want to read up on.  Search for  
"functional programming in ruby"
and also "ruby lisp".  I was thinking something along those lines,  
because we can relate those paradigms in both languages.  Also what  
i'd like to see is
emphasis on meta-programming in Ruby vs meta-programming in lisp.   
That's just off the top of my head.

On Feb 19, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Mark Fredrickson 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