Re: [Chicken-users] Unix Scripting in Chicken

2013-10-14 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 12/10/13 05:49, Evan Hanson wrote: Hi Danny, SCSH was made for just this, and Peter has ported much of it to CHICKEN -- have a look at the scsh-process egg: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/scsh-process Also, I've been working on a set of tools for making UNIX shell pipelines with

Re: [Chicken-users] Unix Scripting in Chicken

2013-10-14 Thread John Cowan
Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit: Also, I've been working on a set of tools for making UNIX shell pipelines with Chicken, although I want to do more work on it before I release it - feel free to check out trunk at: https://www.kitten-technologies.co.uk/project/magic-pipes Nice! Not Chicken- or

Re: [Chicken-users] Unix Scripting in Chicken

2013-10-12 Thread Kristian Lein-Mathisen
The wiki has a section on scripts at http://wiki.call-cc.org/writing%20portable%20scripts which may come in handy. You could also have a look under writing scheme scripts on http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Using%20the%20interpreter . However, I could not get the arguments to CSI on the shebang-line

Re: [Chicken-users] Unix Scripting in Chicken

2013-10-12 Thread John Cowan
Kristian Lein-Mathisen scripsit: You could also have a look under writing scheme scripts on http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Using%20the%20interpreter . However, I could not get the arguments to CSI on the shebang-line to work on my system. It is not portable to provide more than one argument

[Chicken-users] Unix Scripting in Chicken

2013-10-11 Thread Danny Gratzer
Hi all! I've become a little frustrated with using Python for various one-off scripts and automations. Is it common to use Chicken for such tasks? If so, what are some useful libraries to poke at? Cheers, Danny Gratzer ___ Chicken-users mailing list

Re: [Chicken-users] Unix Scripting in Chicken

2013-10-11 Thread Matt Gushee
Hi, Danny-- Interesting question. I don't know that I have the expertise to give you a whole lot of advice, but this is something I have been interested in, and I also come from a Python background. My short answer is that I don't feel that Chicken Scheme is a great tool for this kind of thing,

Re: [Chicken-users] Unix Scripting in Chicken

2013-10-11 Thread Evan Hanson
Hi Danny, SCSH was made for just this, and Peter has ported much of it to CHICKEN -- have a look at the scsh-process egg: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/scsh-process Evan ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org