> On Jul 21, 2017, at 1:56 AM, Sorawee Porncharoenwase > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry for reviving an old thread. As someone who did a lot of programming > competition in the past, I can totally see why IO in Racket is difficult. As > mark.engelberg said, the goal is to solve as many problems as possible. After > the competition is over, it's over. No one is going to care about > maintainability or good coding practice if it makes coding slower.
Which is why I think programming competitions are a direct attempt to undermine computer science and computer-science education. Having said that, if you want to use Racket for competitions, you and Mark Engelberg should get together and produce a high-utility IO library. We can then include it in the distribution. -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
