Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken For Ruby Programmers

[Mark Fredrickson]

Hi Raymond,

I've added my 1st draft presentation outline:

https://galinha.ucpel.tche.br/cgi-bin/svnwiki/default/chicken-for-ruby-programmers

This is just my rambling thoughts on what my Ruby group might be  
interested in.

On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:37 PM, raymond medeiros wrote:
> 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.

Agreed. I think showing how Ruby knowledge is immediately applicable  
in Scheme is a good tack to take. For example, Hash.new is like (make- 
hash-table).

>  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.

While I don't disagree that showing off metaprogramming would be  
useful, I think I may focus on more "immediate" task needs: shell  
scripting, regexes, various object systems, eggs vs. gems. I think  
this balance of quick-start, immediate needs with a higher level idiom  
and meta-programming comparison would make a very strong introduction.  
Divide and conquer!

> something else to consider, would it be prudent to create an  
> introductory tutorial on
> spiffy/web-unity/mettle and show how one might pursue web  
> development for
> people who currently use a framework like RoR?

Certainly. It's not my area of expertise, but perhaps we can draft  
some more individuals. I think such a tutorial could have more value  
if it also addressed other web frameworks such as Struts or CakePHP.

Cheers,
-M