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diff --git a/chicken-5.org b/chicken-5.org index 2f9e26c..1b3fc20 100644 --- a/chicken-5.org +++ b/chicken-5.org @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ * What's cool about CHICKEN 5? #+STARTUP: inlineimages - [[./chicken-logo.png]] + [[./chicken-logo.png]] ** Peter Bex @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Dialect of /LISP/, a functional language (impure) LISP is from 1958, Scheme 1975; still here! - Other Lisps: Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Clojure, .. + Other Lisps: Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Clojure, ... Not for everyone -> Love it or hate it! #+BEGIN_SRC scheme (display "Hello, world!\n") ;; Obligatory @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ ;; Does the right thing, i.e. print 2: (let ((x 1) (y 2)) (swap! x y) - (display y)) + (display x)) #+END_SRC * Scheme superpowers: closures @@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ Spec defines system, allows subset (see later) #+BEGIN_SRC scheme 1 ;; exact integer - 0.5 ;; inexact real number - 1/2 ;; exact rational number + 0.2 ;; inexact real number + 1/5 ;; exact rational number 1+2i ;; exact complex number 0.5+0.25i ;; inexact complex number 1/2+3/4i ;; ALSO an exact complex number @@ -144,8 +144,6 @@ Compiles to C. Uses GCC, clang, ... to generate machine code, so: very portable - *Great* community! Produced lots of libraries - * CHICKEN: C interop Interop with C is trivial; just drop down to it @@ -162,6 +160,19 @@ (display (twice-exp 5)) ;; 296.826318205153 #+END_SRC +* CHICKEN: Community + +** Perhaps the best "feature" of CHICKEN + +** Super friendly and helpful +*** IRC: #chicken on Freenode +*** Mailing list: chicken-users@nongnu.org +*** Regular in-person meetups + +** Produced lots of libraries ("eggs") +*** Generally of high quality +*** Small community, responsive authors + * CHICKEN 5: Overhaul of module system ** Most user-visible change @@ -303,9 +314,9 @@ Made output of Scheme to C conversion stable C to binary is left to the C tool chain -** Gives us verifiability +** Gives us (wider FOSS community) verifiability - See also [reproducible-builds.org] + See also [reproducible-builds.org], Debian, ... ** Nice bonus: Faster builds with ccache |