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Old 04-03-2008
It's time to learn Scheme
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT
Have you ever peeked into one of those bazillion .el files in your Emacs installation's lisp folder and wondered what it meant? Or have you ever looked at a GIMP script .scm file and scratched your head over all the parentheses? Lisp is one of the oldest programming languages still in common use, and Scheme is a streamlined dialect of Lisp. Many universities use Scheme as the language to introduce students to the Computer Science curriculum, and some of their teaching methods are based on the assumption that Scheme is the one language they can count on their students knowing. Even so, many active programmers and system administrators are unfamiliar with Scheme. This article will get you on your way to adding this tool to your developer or sysadmin toolkit.


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chicken-install

CHICKEN-INSTALL(1)					      General Commands Manual						CHICKEN-INSTALL(1)

NAME

       chicken-install - download and install extension libraries for Chicken Scheme

SYNOPSIS

       chicken-install [OPTION | EXTENSION[:VERSION]] ...

DESCRIPTION

       chicken-install	is  a  program that downloads, compiles and installs a prepackaged extension library from sources. If no extension name is
       given on the command-line, then any existing setup scripts in the current directory will be executed in some unspecified order.

OPTIONS

       Enter chicken-install -help for a list of supported command-line options.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       CHICKEN_PREFIX
	      The installation prefix where CHICKEN Scheme and its support files and libraries are located. Defaults to the installation time pre-
	      fix given when configuring the system.

       CHICKEN_INSTALL_PREFIX
	      An alternative installation prefix that will be prepended to extension installation paths if specified.

       CHICKEN_REPOSITORY
	      The  path  where	extension  libraries  are  installed.  Defaults to the package-library path selected during configuration (usually
	      /var/lib/chicken/<binary-version> )

DOCUMENTATION

       More information can be found in the Chicken User's Manual

BUGS

       Submit bug reports by e-mail to chicken-janitors@nongnu.org , preferrably using the chicken-bug tool.

AUTHORS

       The CHICKEN Team

SEE ALSO

       chicken-uninstall(1) chicken-status(1) chicken(1) csc(1) chicken-bug(1)

								    13 Aug 2008 						CHICKEN-INSTALL(1)