Re: Outreachy contribution & guidance with guile.

[Aniket Patil <aniket112.patil@gmail.com>]

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Thank you for providing information.
On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 8:07 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hello Aniket,
>
> Aniket Patil <aniket112.patil@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > I sent patches for gnu/packages/cran.scm. I am planning to add more
> > variables to cran.scm file. Meanwhile, I am writing my final outreachy
> > application.
>
> Great!
>
> > I am thinking about translating guix or gnu docs in Indian languages,
> > which I know.
>
> Translation work is happening via the Translation Project.  See
> <https://translationproject.org/domain/guix-manual.html> for the Guix
> manual (I think few GNU manuals are available for translations apart
> from this one).
>
> Several people on this list are involved in translation, and Arun Isaac
> took care of the Tamil translation of the Shepherd, so surely you can
> get guidance on this from people here.
>
> > Also, as an emacs user, who is trying to understand lisp to get
> > comfortable around emacs, I was a bit confused about whether shall I
> > learn lisp first or guile first? What do you suggest?
>
> Guix itself is written in Guile Scheme.  Scheme is a member of the “Lisp
> family” of programming languages, and so is Emacs Lisp (the language
> used in Emacs).
>
> There are “dialectic” differences, such as different function names, but
> also deeper changes, such as a single name space for both “normal”
> variables and procedures in Scheme as well as a focus on “functional
> programming” in Scheme whereas Emacs Lisp is more biased towards
> imperative programming.
>
> I’m very much biased :-), but I think that Scheme is a bit easier to
> learn.
>
> If you’re going to write code for Emacs, Emacs Lisp is what you should
> learn; if you’re going to write code for Guix, learn Scheme.  Either
> way, despite their differences, you’ll find it rather easy to learn one
> once you know the other.
>
> Ludo’.
>

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