Re: [Chicken-users] a file system using Chicken

2007-06-12 Thread Joerg F. Wittenberger
felix winkelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A few of you have mentioned their past interest in using Scheme for a filesystem. Out of curiosity, what ideas did you guys have in mind? I must have missed that post. This is, when I *must* put in my shameless plug about having worked

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format

2007-06-01 Thread Joerg F. Wittenberger
Adhi Hargo wrote: --- Alejandro Forero Cuervo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's best to keep the authoritative version of the manual in wiki format instead of Texinfo. I think this makes it easier for most to contribute to it. I also think a Texinfo version should be generated from it.

Re: [Chicken-users] cool 3d logo by Joshua Griffith

2007-02-20 Thread Joerg F. Wittenberger
Alejo wrote: On 2/20/07, Alejandro Forero Cuervo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you specify what you mean by 'a Page Index'? A list with the names of absolutely all pages in the wiki, sorted alphabetically? Yes. I'd be inclined to believe such functionality should

Re: [Chicken-users] cross-platform gui toolkit

2007-02-09 Thread Joerg F. Wittenberger
Brandon J. Van Every wrote: Crazy Eddie's GUI System http://www.cegui.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page is worth looking at in this regard. It is a C++ toolkit, skinnable, MIT licensed, and has survived as the preferred GUI of the Ogre3D engine. Ogre3D ain't small potatoes. This means CEGUI

Re: [Chicken-users] cross-platform gui toolkit

2007-02-07 Thread Joerg F. Wittenberger
Brandon Van Every wrote: Chicken wouldn't have half the eggs it does if the non-Chicken Scheme community had taken that position. Fortunately for us, they did not. Which half? My world is OpenGL and C FFIs. I don't see any interloper eggs helping out here. It's one thing if your task

Re: [Chicken-users] cello? cross-platform gui toolkit

2007-02-07 Thread Joerg F. Wittenberger
scwm - I recall vaguely. Kon Wrote: But probably I'm sold because I'm biased anyway. Could someone please tell me, what the difference between cells, termite and askemos is? Cells is a constraint propagation system for CLOS (spreadsheet-style programming). Termite is Erlang in

Re: [Chicken-users] anyone have a Playstation 3 ?

2006-12-27 Thread Joerg F. Wittenberger
On Dec 25, 2006, at 10:10 PM, John Cowan wrote: Shawn Rutledge scripsit: What other kinds of constructs can you imagine in Scheme for parallel execution, which would work better than threads? Communicating sequential processes (CSP) would be the obvious candidate. All the

Re: Re: Re: [Chicken-users] performance issue in xml-rpc

2006-12-11 Thread Joerg F. Wittenberger
So, it looks like the top two time-consuming procedures are read-request and SSAX:XML-SXML. The third is probably http:read-request-attributes. Any comments? Maybe, I would need to look into the chicken source code. Probably you need to. My experience from Askemos [www.askemos.org]

Re: [Chicken-users] Coming to Scheme from Python.

2006-09-21 Thread Joerg F. Wittenberger
Steve Freitas wrote: I wonder if there's been any movement on porting Termite from Gambit to Chicken. If you're willing to cast your problem in an Erlang-style light, that could make for very high multicore performance indeed. Just spawn some child processes and start tossin' your functions

Re: [Chicken-users] R6RS immutable pair

2006-07-03 Thread Joerg F. Wittenberger
= Joerg F. Wittenberger In response to R6RS status report as of june 2006 I'd like to add my experience concerning section 5, on the mutability of pairs. Summary Non-mutability of pairs (i.e. all objects) creates a very different language than traditional Scheme. Such a setting allows to practically

Re: [Chicken-users] simple threading

2006-06-17 Thread Joerg F. Wittenberger
Hi Felix, I've been contemplating...could chicken include some basic support for native thread communication? rscheme has these C functions void rscheme_intr_call0( obj thunk ); void rscheme_intr_call1( obj proc, obj arg ); void rscheme_intr_call2( obj proc, obj arg1, obj arg2 ); which

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-30 Thread F. Wittenberger
Am Dienstag, den 30.05.2006, 11:35 -0500 schrieb Alejandro Forero Cuervo: But if this is to be the official documentation source, I'm a little concerned about the lack of semantic cues. For example, in the snippet above, the same markup is used for both the example and the sample

Re: OT: Re: [Chicken-users] rails-like framework

2006-04-28 Thread F. Wittenberger
Am Donnerstag, den 27.04.2006, 08:17 -0400 schrieb John Cowan: J?rg F. Wittenberger scripsit: Not a few, but they did already. About 300 years ago. And it's partially based on even older knowledge. Military this time, the problem of the byzantine generals. The Byzantine Generals

[Fwd: Re: OT: Re: [Chicken-users] rails-like framework]

2006-04-28 Thread F. Wittenberger
again, this had better been sent to the list as well }:-( ---BeginMessage--- Am Mittwoch, den 26.04.2006, 23:28 -0700 schrieb Kon Lovett: I re-packaged the leventhshein egg last year, not re-writing the existing impl, just extending w/ new procedures. Uh, looks interesting. May I suggest

Re: OT: Re: [Chicken-users] rails-like framework

2006-04-27 Thread F. Wittenberger
Am Dienstag, den 25.04.2006, 15:16 -0400 schrieb John Cowan: As for Chicken, is there a VM? I'm guessing not, because for speed you just use the compiler, and therefore not a lot of emphasis would be placed on making the interpreter the fastest. No, Chicken does not have a VM. If

Re: OT: Re: [Chicken-users] rails-like framework

2006-04-27 Thread F. Wittenberger
Am Mittwoch, den 26.04.2006, 08:12 +0200 schrieb felix winkelmann: On 4/25/06, Shawn Rutledge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another idea I had is if Scheme people could agree on an ideal VM implementation (like Java or C# has), and an efficient portable binary data format, then binary

Re: OT: Re: [Chicken-users] rails-like framework

2006-04-27 Thread F. Wittenberger
Am Dienstag, den 25.04.2006, 11:32 -0700 schrieb Shawn Rutledge: On 4/25/06, Jörg F. Wittenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, den 24.04.2006, 15:12 -0700 schrieb Shawn Rutledge: Well I see the idea of calling a web framework an OS is not new: http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer

Re: OT: Re: [Chicken-users] rails-like framework

2006-04-27 Thread F. Wittenberger
Am Donnerstag, den 27.04.2006, 07:46 -0400 schrieb John Cowan: J?rg F. Wittenberger scripsit: The VM of chicken is just neither a single data structure, nor (the even worse definition) an executable interpreting some byte sequence. It's a calling convention, threads data structure

Re: OT: Re: [Chicken-users] rails-like framework

2006-04-25 Thread F. Wittenberger
.) That's how I keep the canonical form. Otherwise there are some other object databases that are not Scheme-specific (Goods, and the Zope one for example). On 4/22/06, Jörg F. Wittenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, who are interested in a decent web programming framework

Re: OT: Re: [Chicken-users] rails-like framework

2006-04-24 Thread F. Wittenberger
sorry, this was meant to be sent to the mailing list, not private Am Montag, den 24.04.2006, 12:46 +0200 schrieb Jörg F. Wittenberger: Am Montag, den 24.04.2006, 08:21 +0200 schrieb felix winkelmann: Jörg, what would be needed to port Askemos to Chicken (not that I have time

OT: Re: [Chicken-users] rails-like framework

2006-04-22 Thread F. Wittenberger
Dear all, who are interested in a decent web programming framework in Scheme. We've been spending quite a while on such a thing and I'm simply not the person to brag about my part of work (which has been too much), maybe that's the reason it makes me sad watching you people here calling for it

Re: [Chicken-users] rails-like framework

2006-04-22 Thread F. Wittenberger
Am Samstag, den 22.04.2006, 10:08 -0700 schrieb Shawn Rutledge: If anyone is interested: having a decent userfriendly Scheme CMS would be *very* useful too :) Yes as I mentioned, I wanted to build a wiki. But lately I've been thinking that editing wiki-style text should just be one

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: https

2006-03-25 Thread F. Wittenberger
Am Samstag, den 25.03.2006, 02:23 -0300 schrieb Mario Domenech Goulart: Hello Daishi Daishi Kato wrote: Is anyone interested in supporting SSL in the http egg? How stable and usable is the openssl egg? I'm very interested in this feature. I'm afraid I don't know enough about the

Re: [Chicken-users] Optional sqlite3 egg update

2006-03-07 Thread F. Wittenberger
Am Dienstag, den 07.03.2006, 14:51 + schrieb Thomas Chust: On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, JörgF. Wittenberger wrote: actually I must admit that I haven't used the SQLite3 egg for a real multithreaded application so far. Nevertheless I have done some testing, which suggests that everything

Re: [Chicken-users] Optional sqlite3 egg update

2006-03-07 Thread F. Wittenberger
Hi Thomas, Am Montag, den 06.03.2006, 22:34 + schrieb Thomas Chust: Hello, the SQLite3 bindings got a big update and now support user defined collation sequences and SQL functions written in Scheme. They also do automagical recompilation of stale statements now. Nice work. Would you

Re: [Chicken-users] csi : problems to require stuff

2005-12-13 Thread F. Wittenberger
... #;2 cons* Error: unbound variable: cons* #;2 Am Montag, den 12.12.2005, 21:00 +0100 schrieb felix winkelmann: On 12/11/05, Jörg F. Wittenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just upgraded to chicken Version 2, Build 2 - linux-unix-gnu-x86 - [ dload ] (from version 1.63). Now

[Chicken-users] csi : problems to require stuff

2005-12-12 Thread F. Wittenberger
Hello, I just upgraded to chicken Version 2, Build 2 - linux-unix-gnu-x86 - [ dload ] (from version 1.63). Now I can't find out how to tell csi to use srfi-1 bindings. I tries #!/usr/bin/csi -script (require 'srfi-1) cons* and some variations of it, but I found cons* always unbound. What am

Re: [Chicken-users] call-with-values speed

2005-11-22 Thread F. Wittenberger
thanks for sharing this experience. It's quite interesting to me: I've been wondering why a project of mine ran sooo slow in comparision to the rscheme based implementation. But considering that I love multiple value returns, I can understand. I vaguely recall that chicken uses C parameter

Re: [Chicken-users] Async IO (was Re: libcurl?)

2005-10-05 Thread F. Wittenberger
Hi All, I'm compelled to add my $0.02, even though it's sort of a shameless plug. www.askemos.org might be interesting to those of you, who are interested in this thread. Askemos is a programming environment, which, too, shares the Erlang style of concurrency. Persistant objects (basically

Re: [Chicken-users] Async IO (was Re: libcurl?)

2005-10-05 Thread F. Wittenberger
Am Dienstag, den 04.10.2005, 14:40 -0400 schrieb Graham Fawcett: On 10/4/05, Will M. Farr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what Twisted is, but you might have a look at Termite (mentioned in this blog http://patricklogan.blogspot.com/2005/07/termite-lisp-for-distributed-

Re: [Chicken-users] Async IO (was Re: libcurl?)

2005-10-05 Thread F. Wittenberger
Am Mittwoch, den 05.10.2005, 09:29 + schrieb Thomas Chust: Am 05.10.2005, 03:41 Uhr, schrieb Peter Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:21:55PM -, Thomas Chust wrote: CHICKEN does not have any feature that would make continuations serializable; it would mean that

Re: [Chicken-users] libcurl?

2005-09-29 Thread F. Wittenberger
Hi all, my $ 0.02: once I faced a simillar situation when implementing SSL for askemos.org. Since the threading system of rscheme and chicken are simillar in a way, one should consider that user level threads are hardly scheduled to multiple processors, while kernel level processes do with ease.

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