On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 05:03:47PM -0500, Graham Fawcett wrote: > The CL community has a "My Road to Lisp" meme, where CL users write up a > quick story on how they "arrived". I'd *love* to hear people's My Road to > Chicken stories.
A little painful to admit, but I started out with BASIC on the C64, then got a PC with QBASIC/QuickBASIC, then my first "real" language: C. I stuck with C for a long long time until I learned Scheme at university. That was love at first sight and I've been using it ever since :) PLT first, then a little bit of s48 and then Chicken. At work I do a bit of Javascript programming (which is very Schemey), but mostly in Ruby which I absolutely hate, as the #chicken crowd knows all too well from my many rants about it :) (BTW, if nobody else is interested I'd be happy to try my hand at a Ruby->Chicken tutorial). Because of the many problems with Ruby, we're going to switch back to PHP... Of course my secret plan is to sneak in Chicken as soon as I find an opportunity to do so! Cheers, Peter -- http://sjamaan.ath.cx -- "The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music." -- Donald Knuth
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