I agree. Although I appreciate it helps in some classroom situations, I don't think the status quo is best for programmers in general.
Also, speaking of Choose Language, I remember being very confused early on because some options were "doubly hidden": 1. They're not under Preferences, they're under Choose Language. 2. Even when you do Choose Language, they're hidden until you click Show Details. Even after I discovered it, I forgot a few times; I remember hunting for an option through all the Preferences "tabs", thinking, "geez, I know I saw it _somewhere_ before...where the heck...?" > On this topic (which is about the "Choose a language" language that > DrRacket starts in when newly installed), I think we should just > delete all of this code, and start in "the Racket language". > > Advantages: > - eliminating something that trips up everyone who starts using DrRacket > - reducing the number of people who end up in teaching languages by mistake > - removing code (code that doesn't exist has no bugs :) > > Disadvantages: > - Somewhat more teachers (of all kinds) will have to deal with > students who use the full language _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
