(FWIW, I don't have any strong issues with Java, but refering to "the best parts of Java" is asking to be made into a joke.)
Yesterday, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > Justin is right other than the Java part. Eli is right with the > amendment of -1 for the suggestion that Java has good parts worth > borrowing. (-: > > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > > 20 minutes ago, Justin Zamora wrote: > >> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 3:20 AM, D Herring <dherr...@tentpost.com> wrote: > >> > You might emphasize that Racket is a "new language, borrowing the > >> > best parts of Scheme (and other languages?) and extending it with > >> > these features"... > >> > >> A sentence like that would be a good replacement for the awful, > >> "Racket is a programming language" currently on the front page of > >> racket-lang.org Perhaps something like "Racket is a new language > >> that borrows the best parts of Scheme, Java, and other languages and > >> extends them with advanced features such as contracts, types, > >> user-defined languages, a complete GUI framework and other modern > >> features." > > > > -1 for any mention of Java. -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev