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"Ian Bicking" <bickiia@earlham.edu> writes:
<snip>
> Thud has the problem that you need to know something about
> simulation of a certain sort. The example app should be something
> simple and universally understood... a Guile-scriptable
> calculator...? Or is that too boring?
<snip>
A calculator is definitely not too boring -- and potentially very good
tutorial material. That is, it runs all the way from REPL use ("(+ 5
7)", "(pow 2 100)") to GUI programming. For lists etc., you can do
parsing of algebraic input or polynomial calculation. Think emacs
calc. As for C integration, you could try libfftw (the Fastest Fourier
Transform in the West) or try to find some application that could use
a calculator added to it. I think gnumeric and the other various
gnomish spreadsheets already use Guile. Or perhaps gnuplot could use
a new language...
Anyway, I think a new tutorial on "how to use Guile" would be great
--- I used the two tiny little examples in the manual for a long time.
Andrew