Re: Is Guile Useful to a Scheme Noob

[Gour]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:42:53 +0000
>>>>>> "Neil" == Neil Jerram <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

another noob trying to learn as much Scheme as possible to tweak
Gnucash using Guile...

Neil> Why not give Guile a quick try?  I'm sure it should be able to
Neil> interpret SICP's code.

I see there are lot of books dealing with Scheme and wiki page on
Gnucash site speaking about learning Scheme says that "Mastering
Scheme is highly eased after reading TSPL."

After starting with it and trying examples in guile, I've quickly
found out that e.g. guile-1.8.x does not support some stuff from the
book (e.g. using square brackets to delimit bindings of let expr.).

I'm aware that guile-1.9.x has brought support for it, but gnucash
support only guile-1.8 and upcoming gnucash-2.4 won't support
guile-2.0 either (no idea how hard it would be to support it), but
considering my primary objective is to learn "guile for gnucash" I
wonder if sticking to guile-1.8.x is better option for my learning?

Another thing, since I use Emacs, I'd appreciate some hing which mode
to use for guile code?

I see there is Quack and I've just found out about Geiser...


Sincerely,
Gour

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