The chicken IRC channel is IMHO one of the kindest and most helpful places on the internet. I have asked so many stupid questions and they were so helpful. I w

The chicken IRC channel is IMHO one of the kindest and most helpful places on the internet. I have asked so many stupid questions and they were so helpful. I would go as far as to say that they were an important part of me becoming proficient in scheme. The chicken community is my prime example of welcoming and nice open source communities. I still use chicken from time to time, but I switched to guile for a project with an embedded scheme. I wrote quite a lot of scheme code and suddenly had a prelude in guile that wasn't so easily ported.