On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Robby Findler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>></span> wrote:<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Matthias Felleisen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthias@ccs.neu.edu" target="_blank">matthias@ccs.neu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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And it is easy to drop down to the C level with Eli's FFI.<br>
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I'm curious if there's something more like along the lines of a step-by-step tutorial for the FFI? I can see that it's well documented, but it would great if there was something more along the lines of an introductory tutorial.</div>
<div><br></div><div>With a good FFI it seems like someone could write a great <span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(199, 202, 204); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Racket</span> DSL for evented network programming a la Node.js minus all the JS callback cruft.</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>David </div></font></span>