On 1/31/07, Brandon J. Van Every <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But again the question is why *Chicken* ? These specs could describe a lot of projects, whether languages or tools. Not as many projects as one might hope. I think the fact that Chicken is basically a good project, is unusual and important. I know that's a big part of why I've stuck around this long. But the question remains, why *Chicken* ?
For me, Brandon, the excellent FFI is a big win. If you need the functionality of some library XYZ, and it's not in the eggs-list, it's usually trivial to write a wrapper for it. As a general-purpose application developer, Chicken's lack of third-party libraries (compared, say, to Python, Perl, Java) would make it a non-starter, except that wrapping C-libraries is really, really easy, even for crappy programmers like me. :-) And there are a *lot* of C libraries out there. I really encourage you to put the build stuff aside for a while, and spend some time writing some code --- anything at all. Chicken is a great Scheme, super for the pragmatically-minded, rubber-hits-the-road programmer. I'm not disparaging your great build work --- but from your message it sounds like you need a dose of application work (dare I say it? application "fun"?) to balance your perspective. Long live the Chicken, Graham _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
