From 8c0dde5693309707c92cf97c66218e7d6ca8853a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Bex <peter@more-magic.net>
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 16:59:27 +0200
Subject: Dedicate a slide to the community, pick better examples for
 inexactness

---
 chicken-5.org | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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
 
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