Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-10-19 Thread Joshua Branson
Joshua Branson writes: > Amirouche Boubekki writes: > >> Using guix on my Ubuntu I successfully installed chickadee master. >> >> Try to install guix again and report the error you have please :] >> Le mer. 29 août 2018 à 23:09, Joshua Branson a écrit : >>> > > Thanks for the encouragement! I

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-09-03 Thread Joshua Branson
Amirouche Boubekki writes: > Using guix on my Ubuntu I successfully installed chickadee master. > > Try to install guix again and report the error you have please :] > Le mer. 29 août 2018 à 23:09, Joshua Branson a écrit : >> Thanks for the encouragement! I successfully install guix via the bi

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-09-02 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
to...@tuxteam.de writes: >> And it would simplify the code: Why does mplayer/mpv need a mode to play >> from a URL? If we could simply play from a server via the filesystem, >> the tools we use could be simplified a lot. > > This is another kettle of fish: it does sound attractive, but I fear > i

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-09-01 Thread Joshua Branson
Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > Joshua Branson writes: > >> Arne Babenhauserheide writes: >> >>> Joshua Branson writes: >>> > The common lisp bindings had some pretty nifty tools, so you might find > inspiration there. You can make a lot of difference with relatively > little effor

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-09-01 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 12:00:12PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > to...@tuxteam.de writes: > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:42:51PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > >> Joshua Branson writes: > >> > It gets really interesting when you s

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-09-01 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
to...@tuxteam.de writes: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:42:51PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> Joshua Branson writes: >> > It gets really interesting when you start telling these processes to >> > transform the underlying data. They currently have a translator that >> > translates an xml

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-09-01 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Joshua Branson writes: > Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > >> Joshua Branson writes: >> The common lisp bindings had some pretty nifty tools, so you might find inspiration there. You can make a lot of difference with relatively little effort. >>> >>> Can you elaborate? Do you mea

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-31 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: > Thompson, David writes: > > Hi David, > >>> Do you know of real simple hello-world style "games" made with >>> chickadee, say just the bird moving from left to right, respond to arrow >>> press or space bar? >> >> I don't know of anyone that has done that. It'

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-31 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Le ven. 31 août 2018 à 13:33, Jan Nieuwenhuizen a écrit : > > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > > > And by the way, chickadee is an awesome piece of software: it is such a > > refreshing video game programming experience. > > I've been looking at chickadee and wondering if how to use that for a > learn t

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-31 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Thompson, David writes: Hi David, >> Do you know of real simple hello-world style "games" made with >> chickadee, say just the bird moving from left to right, respond to arrow >> press or space bar? > > I don't know of anyone that has done that. It's not hard to do, but I > think using something

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-31 Thread Thompson, David
Hi Jan, On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 7:32 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > >> And by the way, chickadee is an awesome piece of software: it is such a >> refreshing video game programming experience. > > I've been looking at chickadee and wondering if how to use that for a > le

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-31 Thread Joshua Branson
Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > Joshua Branson writes: > >>> The common lisp bindings had some pretty nifty tools, so you might find >>> inspiration there. You can make a lot of difference with relatively >>> little effort. >> >> Can you elaborate? Do you mean I can make a lot of difference by

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-31 Thread Joshua Branson
Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > Joshua Branson writes: > >> It gets really interesting when you start telling these processes to >> transform the underlying data. They currently have a translator that >> translates an xml file into a directory tree. Imagine searching an html >> file with the "

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-31 Thread Joshua Branson
writes: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:42:51PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> >> Joshua Branson writes: >> >> > It gets really interesting when you start telling these processes to >> > transform the underlying data. They currently have a translator that >> > translates an xml file into

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-31 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > And by the way, chickadee is an awesome piece of software: it is such a > refreshing video game programming experience. I've been looking at chickadee and wondering if how to use that for a learn to program experience for childrden. Do you know of real simple hello-wor

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-31 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:42:51PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > Joshua Branson writes: > > > It gets really interesting when you start telling these processes to > > transform the underlying data. They currently have a translator that >

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-30 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Joshua Branson writes: > It gets really interesting when you start telling these processes to > transform the underlying data. They currently have a translator that > translates an xml file into a directory tree. Imagine searching an html > file with the "find" tool. Wouldn't that be somethin

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-30 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Joshua Branson writes: >> The common lisp bindings had some pretty nifty tools, so you might find >> inspiration there. You can make a lot of difference with relatively >> little effort. > > Can you elaborate? Do you mean I can make a lot of difference by > writing translators in python or lisp

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-30 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Joshua Branson writes: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > I looked, and unfortunately parabola doesn't seem to have guile-gl > packaged. :( I could probably go do an internet search and figure out > how to install a guile module, but it's not on the highest of my list of > priorities now. I'll get

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-30 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
On 2018-08-30 15:11, Joshua Branson wrote: Amirouche Boubekki writes: Using guix on my Ubuntu I successfully installed chickadee master. Try to install guix again and report the error you have please :] Le mer. 29 août 2018 à 23:09, Joshua Branson a écrit : I will eventually. Today I won

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-30 Thread Joshua Branson
Amirouche Boubekki writes: > Using guix on my Ubuntu I successfully installed chickadee master. > > Try to install guix again and report the error you have please :] > Le mer. 29 août 2018 à 23:09, Joshua Branson a écrit : I will eventually. Today I won't have any time to do that (or I'd rathe

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-29 Thread Joshua Branson
Amirouche Boubekki writes: > On 2018-08-26 20:16, Joshua Branson wrote: >> Amirouche Boubekki writes: >> > Thanks for taking the time to write me a informational response. I really appreciate it. > Sorry, I don't know what is a GNU/Hurd translators. A GNU/Hurd translator is a userspace proce

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-29 Thread Joshua Branson
Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > Joshua Branson writes: > >> Amirouche Boubekki writes: Is there a programming resource for userspace/kernel software >>> >>> what do you mean by kernel software? >> >> My short term goal right now is to be able to write GNU/Hurd translators >> in guile.

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-29 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Using guix on my Ubuntu I successfully installed chickadee master. Try to install guix again and report the error you have please :] Le mer. 29 août 2018 à 23:09, Joshua Branson a écrit : > > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > > >> I've heard about chickadee! I've tried to install it before, but I > >>

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-29 Thread Joshua Branson
"Thompson, David" writes: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: >> >>> I've heard about chickadee! I've tried to install it before, but I >>> haven't been successful yet. Perhaps I'll have to try again. >> >> What's the issue? Please post a backtrace. >> I can chickadee f

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-29 Thread Joshua Branson
Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> I've heard about chickadee! I've tried to install it before, but I >> haven't been successful yet. Perhaps I'll have to try again. > > What's the issue? Please post a backtrace. > I can chickadee flawlessly here, maybe I can help. Well, I don't have guix installed a

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Joshua Branson writes: > Amirouche Boubekki writes: >>> Is there a programming resource for >>> userspace/kernel software >> >> what do you mean by kernel software? > > My short term goal right now is to be able to write GNU/Hurd translators > in guile. My long term goal is to be a GNU/Hurd de

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Thompson, David writes: > without strapping them to an opinionated engine. So, Starling is going > to be one of those opinionated engines! The core abstractions are > inspired by Godot and Python's Cocos2D which I used many years ago; > it's 2D only for the time being; it uses GOOPS heavily (this

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-27 Thread John Cowan
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 2:51 PM Amirouche Boubekki wrote: > Sorry, I don't know what is a GNU/Hurd translators. > It's the Hurd equivalent of a FUSE file system < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace>, except that you can mount a filesystem on any directory that you own, withou

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-27 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
On 2018-08-26 20:16, Joshua Branson wrote: Amirouche Boubekki writes: On 2018-08-25 19:16, Joshua Branson wrote: You can play with Guile without much C knowledge and I dare to say that you need little of C with things like guile-bytestructures or nyacc's ffi-helper to use the full power

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-27 Thread Thompson, David
On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > >> I've heard about chickadee! I've tried to install it before, but I >> haven't been successful yet. Perhaps I'll have to try again. > > What's the issue? Please post a backtrace. > I can chickadee flawlessly here, maybe I can help. I

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-27 Thread Thompson, David
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 8:39 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > >>> [0] https://libfive.com/studio/ >> >> Wow, this looks awesome! >> Is there a Guix package for the studio? :) > > To get started: > > guix environment --ad-hoc libfive -- Studio > > :-) > > Really great pac

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pierre Neidhardt skribis: >> [0] https://libfive.com/studio/ > > Wow, this looks awesome! > Is there a Guix package for the studio? :) To get started: guix environment --ad-hoc libfive -- Studio :-) Really great package, indeed! Ludo’.

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-26 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
> I've heard about chickadee! I've tried to install it before, but I > haven't been successful yet. Perhaps I'll have to try again. What's the issue? Please post a backtrace. I can chickadee flawlessly here, maybe I can help. And by the way, chickadee is an awesome piece of software: it is su

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-26 Thread Joshua Branson
Amirouche Boubekki writes: > On 2018-08-25 19:16, Joshua Branson wrote: >> > > You can play with Guile without much C knowledge and I dare to say that you > need little of C with things like guile-bytestructures or nyacc's ffi-helper > to use the full power of GNU Guile. Can you elaborate on gui

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-25 Thread Matt Wette
On 08/25/2018 01:10 PM, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: [0] https://libfive.com/studio/ Wow, this looks awesome! Is there a Guix package for the studio? :) yea that looks really awesome -- thanks for the pointer

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-25 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
> [0] https://libfive.com/studio/ Wow, this looks awesome! Is there a Guix package for the studio? :) -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-25 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
On 2018-08-25 19:16, Joshua Branson wrote: Hello, Hello and welcome Joshua I'm a recent college grad, and I'm trying to get into programming. I figured I'd learn a little bit of C, so that I can play with guile and C. You can play with Guile without much C knowledge and I dare to say th

How to get started in guile & programming generally

2018-08-25 Thread Joshua Branson
Hello, I'm a recent college grad, and I'm trying to get into programming. I figured I'd learn a little bit of C, so that I can play with guile and C. I suppose that I'm a visual learner, and that probably helped me learn how to make websites. Is there a programming resource for userspace/kern