Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken For Ruby Programmers

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:14:45PM -0600, Mark Fredrickson wrote:
> > 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.

Today during the hackathon I've created an initial document at
http://chicken.wiki.br/chicken-for-ruby-programmers

It tries to incorporate all that was previously there, but I had to
delete the exact layout there because it was very much a presentation
and made it hard to weave a narrative through it.

It's not quite finished yet, but I need a rest from it.  Tomorrow I'll
continue with it.  Feel free to fill in some examples and maybe fix
some omissions/mistakes of mine.

This document is the result of one big session of writing, I haven't
really had the time to go over what I wrote initially, so I imagine
it's a little bit rambling and perhaps parts can be shortened
significantly.  Feel free to help out with this, otherwise I'll see
if I can do it tomorrow too.

Cheers,
Peter
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