Thanks John for the report. Two questions please: 1. Could you point me to a standards document for Clojure?
2. Could you point me to a criteria that classify Racket as a 'fringe' language and Clojure as a non-fringe language? -- Matthias On Apr 29, 2011, at 10:23 AM, John Clements wrote: > This is just one random guy, but it's interesting to see how Racket is > perceived. > > Excerpts from a conversation on stackoverflow about Racket: > > Thanks. And that's why I'm starting to learn to dislike Scheme, despite > everything else. – MCXXIII yesterday > > In that case, it's a good thing that Racket isn't Scheme. – John Clements 20 > hours ago > > I don't know if I'd like to turn to some "fringe" language. Also seems odd to > me to call it a Scheme implementation if it's not meant to be Scheme at all. > I really like standards and Scheme seems to suffer greatly in that area. I > think I may have to switch to some other form of Lisp. Clojure seems > potentially nice at a glance. – MCXXIII 20 hours ago > > Ah! You said the magic word! Clojure is a LISP implementation in a very > similar way that Racket is a Scheme implementation. Put differently: if you > don't object to Clojure, there's no good reason to object to Racket. – John > Clements 13 hours ago > > Racket comes off as "Scheme, but not really" while Clojure comes off as > "Clojure (inspired by Lisp)". At least that's the impression. It's kinda like > how Java was inspired by C/C++ yet Java is Java. Also, I could go learn > INTERCAL too. It wouldn't be very useful aside from the pure experience, and > maybe with INTERCAL that experience would be worth it, but in the case of > Racket I might as well get that exact same experience from something more > "mainstream". So, if my objective is to learn some form of Lisp, I'd go with > one of the three major dialects, not Racket. – MCXXIII 5 hours ago > > Thanks for your thoughtful reply. Obviously, Racket is still working to > define itself as a separate entity. – John Clements 0 secs ago > > You can see the original thread here: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5806222/opening-urls-with-scheme/5811345#5811345 > > > John Clements > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
