[Chicken-users] Re: Set! question - long example

[Graham Fawcett]

On 5/8/07, William Ramsay <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for the help.     I now fully understand what was going on.

Great!

> Most people wouldn't learn am new language with a problem quite as
> difficult as what I'm taking on, but I have found from experience
> that that's the BEST way to learn a language.  It makes no sense to
> put a lot of time into learning a language only to find way down the
> road that it doesn't meet your needs.

Whatever's right for you. Writing a GTK text-editor seems like a
pretty hard-core introduction to me. ;-)

> (One problem is that you discover cadr after writing (car (cdr x))
> all over the place!!!)  So far Chicken is doing everything I've ever
> done in Ruby and doing it four times faster.....

Unless you're doing hard-core numerical stuff, I doubt Chicken's
performance will ever disappoint you.

Best of luck, and keep the questions coming.

Graham