Hello All,
It seems we are not seeing many/any actual suggestions for ways to improve the
Racket documentation. I have been thinking about this quite a bit. Writing good
documentation is hard and very time consuming. It is also a task which most
developers absolutely hate (myself included). I'v
On Jan 1, 2012, at 6:14 PM, Racket Noob wrote:
For all you dear academic Racket scribomans, here's a lesson from
Mark Tarver, the ingenious inventor of a new lisp-like language,
Shen (more on that beautiful language can be found here: http://
http://shenlanguage.org).
In his article "Why
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Raoul Duke wrote:
> horses for courses, to some degree - Shen is all about portability,
> and it is very young.
No doubt. I have my eye on Shen. It could mature into something very
cool, and I'm hoping that happens. I meant my opinion to be about the
breadth of
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Mark Engelberg wrote:
> I find your comparison to Shen somewhat ironic, because, as much as I
> admire Shen, I think the PLT team has produced something of far
> greater practicality, with substantially better tools and
> documentation.
horses for courses, to some
The PLT team clearly cares passionately about creating and maintaining
real, usable languages and tools. That is why Racket exists. Very
few academic projects produce anything nearly as useful and
professional.
I find your comparison to Shen somewhat ironic, because, as much as I
admire Shen, I
Racket Noob wrote at 01/01/2012 06:14 PM:
What do you say to this, Neil?
Racket Noob, your prior behavior on this list has been so culturally
inappropriate -- even after you were informed privately and
constructively about that -- that I suspect now no one takes you
seriously, nor wants to
For all you dear academic Racket scribomans, here's a lesson from Mark Tarver,
the ingenious inventor of a new lisp-like language, Shen (more on that
beautiful language can be found here: http://http://shenlanguage.org). In his
article "Why I am Not a Professor", this clever man says the fol
Jay McCarthy wrote at 01/01/2012 04:34 PM:
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:37:03 -0500,Neil Van Dyke mumbled:
Maybe some student wants to see whether any big wins can be gotten for
keeping continuations in addressable virtual memory, if they can tweak
the app, Racket compiler, Racket VM and GC, Rack
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:03:02 -0600,Robby Findler
mumbled:
> I'm not sure if the web-server supports continuation marks or not
The stateless transformation does support continuation marks, provided
the keys and values are serializable. (Parameters/exception handlers are not
supported because the
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:37:03 -0500,Neil Van Dyke mumbled:
> Maybe some student wants to see whether any big wins can be gotten for
> keeping continuations in addressable virtual memory, if they can tweak
> the app, Racket compiler, Racket VM and GC, Racket Web Server, and Linux.
Emery Berger h
Hi all,
I'm looking into getting fluxus running with the latest version of
racket, we were having some problems with MZ_REGISTER_STATIC when using
scheme_basic_env. By changing the order of initialisation I now have
this working, but resetting the environment (with a second call to
scheme_basic_en
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