> So, at the end I just wonder how is it that such Wonderland is not > discovered by much more people?
(My perspective is from working in the same place for 32 years) - To claim progress, most people want to make only minimum changes to their way of doing things. - To claim progress, most people do not want to make any change at all to their way of *thinking* about things. - To claim a sound plan, managers only want to allow their people to attempt half of the above two points, and the second one is zero already. I enjoy the freedom of using Racket because I gambled with its use and was immediately successful... and because it works fine on OSX, Linux, and Windows. However, the organization will never overtly endorse it due to the above points. > > Thanks to all who help creating these wonders. ;) Thanks to all who helped changed my way of thinking about solving problems (some of which have nothing to do with programming.) rac On Feb 13, 2016, at 10:31 AM, Saša Janiška wrote: > Hello, > > almost year ago I've become interested in Racket, but due to several > reasons it did fall by the wayside. :-( > > Recently I decided to migrate most of my tool-chain to Emacs (editor, > org-mode, Gnus...) and then, naturally, when considering about learning > some Elisp, I've remembered my past encounter with Racket which in the > past did happen since I was looking for adequate language for > multi-platform GUI app and Racket is one of the few modern and > higher-level languages to provide 1st class support for it. > > There is, of course, Scribble[1] to write high-quality > documentation (I'll also try to provide Scribble support for writing web > content in Nikola -- python-powered static-site-generator). > > Lastly, when preparing slide-presentation for my wife (medicine), I did > use LyX/LaTeX/Beamer, but considered to switch to ConTeXt in order to > avoid having same-Beamer-look when I have found out about Slideshow > library which means that by moving to and learning Racket I'll be able > to write GUI app, write docs, web content and prepare nice presentations > - everything just within the scope of single language! > > Here I do not want to mention that Racket has wonderful ecosystem - > package manager (btw, I'd like to see some support for using Fossil DVCS > repos), building stand-alone executables etc. > > So, at the end I just wonder how is it that such Wonderland is not > discovered by much more people? > > Thanks to all who help creating these wonders. ;) > > > Sincerely, > Gour > > Footnotes: > [1] I still consider to make use of Pollen! > > -- > A self-realized man has no purpose to fulfill in the discharge > of his prescribed duties, nor has he any reason not to perform > such work. Nor has he any need to depend on any other living being. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email toracket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
