zedstar dot org » chicken http://zedstar.org/blog Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:28:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Groking Guile’s FFI http://zedstar.org/blog/2008/11/09/groking-guile/ http://zedstar.org/blog/2008/11/09/groking-guile/#comments Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:38:49 +0000 john http://zedstar.org/blog/?p=83 I have lately been very busy with work, life and the universe and subsequently have done little hacking. I have recently been examining Guile. Guile has been part of OpenEmbedded for a while so should be easy to get running on numerous embedded devices. Chicken was very recently added to OpenEmbedded, however, lacks support for building eggs in this environment. One thing I really love about Chicken is its very easy to use foreign function interface (FFI). After spending the odd hour over various weekends I have finally begun to grok Guile’s FFI. I plan to build packedobjects for Guile and possibility extend its features.

I really like the idea of extension languages ever since I did some work with Tcl a number of years ago. A great example application was Eggdrop the IRC bot. Lots of kids at the time would program their eggdrop bots using the simple Tcl interface. I think a lot can be said about this approach in terms of learning/teaching programming. I hope to explore this further with my education hat on.

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