[racket] Documentation enhancement suggestions

2012-01-01 Thread Gerry Weaver
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

Re: [racket] Mark Tarver is the man!

2012-01-01 Thread Bloch Stephen
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

Re: [racket] Mark Tarver is the man!

2012-01-01 Thread Mark Engelberg
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

Re: [racket] Mark Tarver is the man!

2012-01-01 Thread Raoul Duke
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

Re: [racket] Mark Tarver is the man!

2012-01-01 Thread Mark Engelberg
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

Re: [racket] Mark Tarver is the man!

2012-01-01 Thread Neil Van Dyke
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

[racket] Mark Tarver is the man!

2012-01-01 Thread Racket Noob
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

Re: [racket] Engineering Tradeoffs of ANF transforms and the Stateless Server

2012-01-01 Thread Neil Van Dyke
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

Re: [racket] Engineering Tradeoffs of ANF transforms and the Stateless Server

2012-01-01 Thread Jay McCarthy
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

Re: [racket] Engineering Tradeoffs of ANF transforms and the Stateless Server

2012-01-01 Thread Jay McCarthy
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

[racket] scheme_basic_env problem

2012-01-01 Thread David Griffiths
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