Impressive and well-deserved achievement. The work done by the PLT Group and others has been undervalued for too long. I certainly believe that for too long the only marketing coming out of Racket/PLT Scheme was "it's great for education", which although it might be true, it understates its real value.
Racket is a great language in its own right. Not just for education and not just for prototyping. Racket is great for product development as well - from start to finish - no ifs or buts. Saying otherwise is understating its value and undervaluing your work. I congratulate everyone in Racket boat, I have a feeling the future is bright. Buckle your seatbelts, the ride is just starting! :) Paulo Matos On 27/09/2018 00:53, Matthew Flatt wrote: > Dear Racketeers, > > Racket has just received the > > 2018 ACM SIGPLAN Software Systems Award > > We are honored by this award, but it belongs to more than the core > group of people named in the citation. Many people have invested time > and energy into this language. > > The language is what it is now because of you. > > Looking back at the modest beginnings in January 1995, we want to > acknowledge some contributors specially: > > John Clements, for constructing the incredible stepper back in the > late 90s and thus helping distinguish DrScheme from all other > pedagogic IDEs, for maintaining the beast for 20 years, and > taking on many other library projects; > > Cormac Flanagan, for using PLT Scheme to create MrSpidey, which > placed our little language into the web of SIGPLAN research and > awareness way way back; > > Matthew Butterick for "Beautiful Racket", code, languages, volunteer > teaching, and faithful evangelizing; > > Vincent St-Amour, Ryan Culpepper, Paul Steckler, and Mark Krentel > for managing the Racket world of software for many years; > > and Vincent also for his tender love and care for RacketCon. > > Many, many others have contributed to Racket over the past two decades > through implementation, teaching, and research. We have collected many > names at the end of this post, but our memories are probably flawed > and, in recent years, the contributor community has grown > tremendously. This doesn't mean we aren't thinking of you and thanking > you today --- and not just today, but every time we launch our > wonderful DrRacket and run beautiful Racket programs. > > THANK YOU ALL. We are looking forward to many more years of > Racketeering! > > - Matthew with Eli, Matthias, Robby, Shriram, Jay, and Sam > > Contributors: Claire Alvis, Leif Andersen, Yavuz Arkun, Ian Barland, > Gann Bierner, Stephen Bloch, Filipe Cabecinhas, Corky Cartwright, > Stephen Chang, Richard Cleis, Richard Cobbe, Greg Cooper, Christos > Dimoulas, Eric Dobson, Carl Eastlund, Moy Easwaran, Will Farr, Dan > Feltey, Michael Filonenko, Burke Fetscher, Kathi Fisler, Spencer > Florence, Daniel Friedman, Tony Garnock-Jones, Sebastian Good, Paul > Graunke, Kathy Gray, Ben Greenman, Dan Grossman, Arjun Guha, Dave > Gurnell, Tobias Hammer, William Hatch, Bruce Hauman, Greg Hendershott, > Dave Herman, Jim Hollan, Blake Johnson, Andrew Kent, Gregor Kiczales, > Alexis King, Casey Klein, Alex Knauth, Geoffrey S. Knauth, Mario > Latendresse, Xiangqi Li, Guillaume Marceau, Gustavo Massaccesi, Jacob > Matthews, Mike T. McHenry, Philippe Meunier, Albert Meyer, Scott > Owens, David T. Pierson, Jon Rafkind, Prabhakar Ragde, Norman Ramsey, > Jamie Raymond, Grant Rettke, Guido Rößling, Emmanuel Schanzer, Paul > Schlie, Dorai Sitaram, Francisco Solsona, Sarah Spall, Mike Sperber, > Stevie Strickland, James Swaine, Jens Axel Søgaard, Neil Van Dyke, > David Van Horn, Anton van Straaten, Asumu Takikawa, Kevin Tew, Neil > Toronto, Milo Turner, Dale Vaillancourt, Dimitris Vyzovitis, Mitch > Wand, Stephanie Weirich, Noel Welsh, Adam Wick, Danny Yoo, Shu-Hung > You, and ChongKai Zhu. > -- Paulo Matos -- 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.
