On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 06:18:30AM +0100, Jesse Alama wrote: > > I've had some moderate success in established, non-Racket companies by > working around -- rather than taking on and trying to replace -- the main > language & toolchain. For the PHP shop where I work, I made a DSL called > Riposte [1] for testing HTTP APIs. It has become, in time, the de facto tool > for such things. Thanks to Riposte, all developers have Racket installed on > their workstations, even though I'm the only one who knows Racket and can > fix problems with the tool.
Not for Racket, but for Scheme: Gambit makes a great scripting language for C and C++. At a Lisp-related conference a few years at, there was a paper describing a 200,000-line C/C++ program that got Gambit grafted on. Subsequent development found it often better to add functionality to the Gambit scripts than to rewrite existing C/C++ code. Within a few years the entire system was vastly smaller, and faster as well. An example of gradualism. Perhaps the application was ideally suited to it, perhaps not. I don't know. -- hendrik -- 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.
