Scheme Goodness

But after several months of fighting in my spare time with getting the eVB up and running on my virtualised XP system, I just gave up and figured that this blog would not really go anywhere interesting.

Until, I chanced upon the fact that PocketScheme has the hooks in it to generate and deal with actual WindowsCE forms.

Of course, it's as ugly as writing windowed apps in C but, hey - it's Scheme for pete's sake. One should be able to abstract much of that ugliness that is windowed apps in C. (*shudder)

Here's a taste of some Scheme goodness in a simple app that adds two to a number you give it:

(begin
 (define (x n) (+ 2 n))
 (display "enter a number:")
 (define mynum (read))
 (define res (x mynum))
 (display #\newline)
 (display "result:")
 (display "res)
)