Re: [racket] You're invited to Neil Toronto's Dissertation Defense

2014-06-12 Thread Eugene Wallingford
> I have nothing intelligent to add. Just congratulations! (Also, "Doctor > Toronto" is a pretty awesome superhero title.) I was thinking that we have the makings of a new television procedural: "Doctor Toronto, PLT". Congratulations, and thanks for posting the video. Eugene

Re: [racket] an interesting article on IDE's for education

2012-09-29 Thread Eugene Wallingford
> See http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/ . A lot of > inspiring and interesting ideas about how an IDE can make > programs more comprehensible. Victor gave a talk nearly identical to this paper at StrangeLoop on Tuesday. It was good. But I must say that Matthew Flatt's

Re: [racket-users] Order of argument conventions, or ... conventions of argument ordering

2016-04-21 Thread Eugene Wallingford
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 08:07:36AM -0700, Jordan Johnson wrote: > 1) With many of these functions, there's usually an imaginary preposition > there, when I read most of them functions: > > sort ls by > > cons X onto ls > remove X from ls > map f over ls I think this way when I design a fun

Re: [racket-users] Order of argument conventions, or ... conventions of argument ordering

2016-04-21 Thread Eugene Wallingford
> Eugene Wallingford wrote on 04/21/2016 11:18 AM: > > This also reminds me fondly of Smalltalk's separable message > > names. They always felt more natural to me than more typical > > keyword arguments. > > On a tangent, Smalltalk-like names we

Re: [racket] rotate an image using 2htdp/image

2010-07-19 Thread Eugene Wallingford
> > Just want to clear up thingsthe how can adjust the pinhole or the > > rotation center? > > There is no pinhole. My earlier reply was trying to tell you that this > question does not make sense. Perhaps Matthew is concerned not so much with the resulting orientation of the image