Re: turtle’s outline on blue plaid as main image in initial window of DrRacket on 2020‐06‐11: an Easter egg and a curiosity (veering off topic for [racket-users])
I work out here for a company that doesn’t provide that holiday, but at least I developed in DrRacket the whole day. :) RAC > On Jun 14, 2020, at 7:48 AM, Robby Findler wrote: > > > I don't know that there is a direct connection except that some of us (maybe > just me?) love the place that celebrates a holiday there. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kamehameha_I_Day > > In addition to the honu, the pattern in the background is palaka. > > Robby > > >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 12:41 PM Etan Wexler wrote: >> On 2020‐06‐11, DrRacket, at initialization, presented to me, instead of the >> Racket logo, a sea turtle’s outline in thick, gray strokes, filled with the >> deep blue and deep red of the Racket logo, against a background of plaid of >> light blue and medium blue. The image is quite appealing, even beautiful. >> What is the association between 2020‐06‐11 and sea turtles? >> >> -- >> 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. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/2020-06-14_DrRacket_Easter_egg_2020-06-11_sea_turtle%40r-6.org. > > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAL3TdONyWMckYzsHCY8rY%2B5RW2UC_r63PwjVqx-xczUUOFgrRA%40mail.gmail.com. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/792A203A-47E6-47DD-B2C4-3BEB50E3F09D%40icloud.com.
Re: [racket-users] Pitching use of Racket at work?
> On Sep 18, 2019, at 12:25 PM, Sage Gerard wrote: > > This question is more for private-sector programmers in firms using > well-adopted technologies: How many of you tried to get your team to try > Racket at work for smaller tasks? What was their reaction? Three of them use it because they want to. Several others because they were required. They reacted with curiosity, but didn’t truly learn the usefulness of functional programming or the capabilities of Racket in particular (extendable documentation, DrRacket environment, macros, modules, etc.) > I know there are not enough Racket programmers out there to justify many > risks in maintaining large Racket projects in large firms, so I emphasize the > word "try" in my question. I'm hoping your stories might help me learn how to > get more professionals to be at least curious about it. > > The more I use Racket the more I wonder why so many other people aren't, even > if only to learn more. When I bring it up, people look at me like I'm that > crazy guy yammering about veganism or Crossfit (My words, not theirs. As far > as I'm concerned, if they show me their baby pictures without me asking then > I get to talk about Racket for as long as they just talked about their spawn). In my world (telescope laboratory), most of the software is written by engineers and scientists; they have no sensitivity to alternative software development possibilities and generally are annoyed by such matters. rac > > ~slg > > > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/faTFpGrSPLFdjpqNCiOAHFGA4azHmOPASFUpuiHLiVHl5tzP23rfzyaa6N6VP83R-qTti8R2NLnipLZ1xpDUuPnoijAXhkG3vbONKpOPRYY%3D%40sagegerard.com. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/F488EFCF-9A93-411E-857F-2BC0558C0482%40icloud.com.
Re: [racket-users] Re: IO in racket is painful
"Lurking thresholds" are fun: I used pre-Racket to read files of numerical data, created by different agencies across the country. The code looked for something that looked like a date (out of about 10 formats), and moved on from there to read a few hundred lines of gradually changing groups of numbers. The code was quite good at rummaging beyond various useless headers that were created over the years by new programmers attempting to improve the world... until one day, when someone actually made a truly useful header with an example that contained representative data. rac On Mar 24, 2016, at 2:14 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 08:59:50PM +0100, Jos Koot wrote: >> Hi >> >> In all computer languages it is more difficult to read data than to write >> them, I think. > > Perhaps because when you write data you know what you are writing and > are in control. But when you are reading, who knows what might be > lurking at the threshold of the file? > > -- 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. On Mar 24, 2016, at 2:14 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 08:59:50PM +0100, Jos Koot wrote: >> Hi >> >> In all computer languages it is more difficult to read data than to write >> them, I think. > > Perhaps because when you write data you know what you are writing and > are in control. But when you are reading, who knows what might be > lurking at the threshold of the file? > > -- 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. -- 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.
Re: [racket-users] (eqv? Racket-land Wonderland) -> #t
> 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.
