Re: [racket] Summer programs learning Racket for a student

2014-04-19 Thread Grant Rettke
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > A backup idea, if a programming summer camp doesn't pan out this year, is > project-oriented self-directed > study If there was been a summer camp that combined hacking and kickball... lot of fun to be had. Racket Us

Re: [racket] Dr. Racket for iOS

2014-04-06 Thread Grant Rettke
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Gregory Gelfond wrote: > I've been playing with Pythonista for iOS and it's quite a useful app. It > got me thinking however. Are there any plans to bring Dr. Racket (or some > analogous) tool for iOS? Was this answered elsewhere? Racket Use

Re: [racket] Solarized DrRacket

2013-10-12 Thread Grant Rettke
drracket-solarized > > Thanks to Robby for color schemes! > > [1]: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized > > Cheers, > Asumu > > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.org | http://w

Re: [racket] Racket/Bootstrap used for K-12 government sanctioned education?

2013-10-12 Thread Grant Rettke
11 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > Grant, what do you mean by "government sanctioned"? And why are you asking? > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Grant Rettke wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Anyone used Racket or Bootstrap for a government sanctioned K-12 &g

Re: [racket] Racket/Bootstrap used for K-12 government sanctioned education?

2013-10-07 Thread Grant Rettke
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > Grant, what do you mean by "government sanctioned"? Used in a full-curriculum school run by the government or eligible for government funding. Not afterschool. Not once in a while. > And why are you asking? I'm curious about teachin

[racket] Racket/Bootstrap used for K-12 government sanctioned education?

2013-10-07 Thread Grant Rettke
Hi, Anyone used Racket or Bootstrap for a government sanctioned K-12 educational program? Best wishes, -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) “Life has become immeasurably

Re: [racket] Some MPI code

2013-09-30 Thread Grant Rettke
LOL On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: > Hah. I forgot a NOT. I meant to say I was NOT offended. Haha. Whoops. > > Jay > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Grant Rettke wrote: >>> On Mon

Re: [racket] Some MPI code

2013-09-30 Thread Grant Rettke
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: > Sorry Grant, I don't understand what you mean. Is it a basic starting > point on what? It looks to me like it tries to do the same thing as > the OpenMPI package: > > https://pkg.racket-lang.org/info/openmpi > > But I'm not sure. Is there some

Re: [racket] Some MPI code

2013-09-29 Thread Grant Rettke
Mine is a basic starting point. On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Jay McCarthy wrote: > Hi Grant, > > If there is overlap with the openmpi package, we should merge. If not, you > should post this in the package catalog. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 29, 2013, at 8:18

[racket] Some MPI code

2013-09-29 Thread Grant Rettke
Hi, A while back some of you kind souls helped me out with connecting Racket to MPI. For anyone else here is how far I got, which wasn't too far, but, worked. https://github.com/grettke/plt-mpi Best wishes, -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonde

Re: [racket] Introductory talk on Contracts and Functional Contracts, with most examples in Racket

2013-09-05 Thread Grant Rettke
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > That's what Meyer thought with Eiffel. It assumes a closed world of software > project with a central registry of higher-order types > combined with contracts to avoid rampant code duplication. Some people want > to live in this world;

Re: [racket] Suggested material for learning Racket and PL topics?

2013-08-28 Thread Grant Rettke
27;ve found most useful and point me to materials > that I'm not yet aware of? > > Thanks. > > > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/

Re: [racket] DrRacket install troubles Ubuntu 12.04

2013-08-28 Thread Grant Rettke
> Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) “Life has become immeasurably better since I h

Re: [racket] applicative order -- topic was: Re: Help with exception raising and testing

2013-08-28 Thread Grant Rettke
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > So if you wish to connect LC and PL and speak about order, please study the > above citations. The whole discussion is summarized in the first part of the > REDEX book (see redex.racket-lang.org). Thank you. Ra

Re: [racket] applicative order -- topic was: Re: Help with exception raising and testing

2013-08-28 Thread Grant Rettke
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > For the record, there is no such thing as 'applicative order.' There is > call-by-value and there is a humongous misunderstanding > called 'applicative order' When authors use this term what do they cite as being the authoritative sou

Re: [racket] Where to start programming for a 10 year old?

2013-08-24 Thread Grant Rettke
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > I don't see how either Scratch or Bootstrap can deliver the promised iOS app. I was thinking more about getting him started programming "the right way", on any platform, with the promise that it will be the path towards releasing iOS ap

[racket] Where to start programming for a 10 year old?

2013-08-24 Thread Grant Rettke
over Skype and a shared-screen most of the time, too. Where is a good place to start? Best wishes, -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) “Life has become immeasurably better si

Re: [racket] default colors in drracket

2013-08-23 Thread Grant Rettke
"black on white" which, assuming you were in > white on black mode to begin with, will reset things to their defaults. > > Robby > > > > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret..

Re: [racket] Where to learn advanced programming skills?

2013-07-30 Thread Grant Rettke
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:05 AM, Tim Brown wrote: > On 24/07/13 18:29, Joe Gilray wrote: >> >> By the time you get to problem #60 you will have built a little toolbox of >> reusable functions (admittedly mostly in the number-theory area) and been >> exposed to many different ways to solve problems

Re: [racket] learn racket in 10 minutes

2013-07-14 Thread Grant Rettke
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Roger Rousseau wrote: > It's largely inspired from the Clojure version and the Racket documentation > I would be grateful for any corrections/suggestions before I send a pull > request to get this online That is really, really nice. A few of my personal favorites

Re: [racket] Aging code

2013-07-11 Thread Grant Rettke
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Asumu Takikawa wrote: > For `grep` there is `ack` for example. There are many versions of the > `locate` utility, many competing ntpds, fetchmails, many pagers, and so > on. It seems like in these cases what's more important is the "service" > (or perhaps "interfac

[racket] Offtopic: Favorite resources for mastering SML?

2013-07-04 Thread Grant Rettke
ld get your help here and learn about your favorite learning SML resources. Best wishes, -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been

Re: [racket] Definition of DSL?

2013-06-24 Thread Grant Rettke
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Nick Shelley wrote: > Since I'm not very experienced in this at all, I thought I'd ask the list > what definition of DSL is most correct and adopt that one. Any thoughts will > be appreciated. It depends who is defining it. Java doesn't have rich syntactic extens

Re: [racket] Code Reuse, Object Oriented vs Functional

2013-06-20 Thread Grant Rettke
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Scott Klarenbach wrote: > both methods achieve reuse and it's just a matter of preference? Agreed. Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] Requirements & constraints for a function to be accepted for inclusion in Racket?

2013-04-30 Thread Grant Rettke
The process is documented in exhaustive detail here: http://blog.racket-lang.org/2012/11/tutorial-contributing-to-racket.html Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] unrequire for modules, or a new, clean sub-context?

2013-04-26 Thread Grant Rettke
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Sanjeev K Sharma wrote: > what do you do when you get the same procedure name between two required > modules? This is the key question, > the next 2 are to further my understanding of (require ...) binding. http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/require.html#(for

Re: [racket] Json pretty-print

2013-04-16 Thread Grant Rettke
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Nick Shelley wrote: > The thing is, the system call to python works for our needs and is easier > than rolling my own. FWIW it is so pleasant in Python that at work the .NET guys use Python to do the same thing! :) Racket Users list: http

Re: [racket] (no subject)

2013-03-30 Thread Grant Rettke
gt; and i need to make a network first > > pls suggest some method so that i can > invoke functions on another machine through mine > on drracket!! > > thankx > > > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > > -

Re: [racket] Faking a language for documentation linking in Scribble

2013-03-20 Thread Grant Rettke
ading... > > ... It looks like the Inside Racket documentation has a set of > scribble functions for C code: > > > http://git.racket-lang.org/plt/blob_plain/HEAD:/collects/scribblings/inside/utils.rkt > > Perhaps you can adapt this code? > -- Grant

[racket] Faking a language for documentation linking in Scribble

2013-03-20 Thread Grant Rettke
also research using LaTeX, too. Just hoping to get some feedback on whether it is worth attempting such a thing, and how. Best wishes, Grant Rettke Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] What are some good practices of reading racket source code

2013-02-02 Thread Grant Rettke
Thanks. I was thinking more about, how Racket itself works, where a newbie might start looking at the code. On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: > On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Grant Rettke wrote: >> In that same vein, what are good entry points for learning about how

Re: [racket] What are some good practices of reading racket source code

2013-02-02 Thread Grant Rettke
to read the Racket source code while working with C and Racket (and > lots of other languages). > Can you give me some good practices for avoiding potential pitfalls. > Thanks. > > > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > -- Gra

Re: [racket] Book parts in scribble

2013-02-01 Thread Grant Rettke
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > Finally, there are now `scribble/book' and > `scribble/report' languages, Nice! Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] Ann: scribfile, scribble forms to render lispy files and system call results

2013-01-14 Thread Grant Rettke
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: >> >> http://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/grettke/scribfile.plt/1/0/planet-docs/scribfile/index.html >> >> Is a little library that provides two forms, one to read a lispy >> language file into a codeblock and another that makes a system c

[racket] Ann: scribfile, scribble forms to render lispy files and system call results

2013-01-14 Thread Grant Rettke
. Pretty helpful for demos of non-Racket code and who knows what else. Thanks Racket team, and Danny and Matthew for getting this working. Best wishes, -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ Wisdom begins in wonder. ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x

Re: [racket] novice question about expressions

2013-01-12 Thread Grant Rettke
(/ (+ (* n 2) 300) (* 13 n)) On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Jamel Hamani wrote: > (n*2+ 300) / (13n) -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ Wisdom begins in wonder. ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) Racket Users l

Re: [racket] Question about syntax splicing and formatting of the resulting code body

2013-01-11 Thread Grant Rettke
mported text file. Is it as symbol as consing a symbol version of the > > comment onto the datum list read by the file? I will check. > > Unfortunately, I'm not sure about this yet. > -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ Wisdom

Re: [racket] Question about syntax splicing and formatting of the resulting code body

2013-01-09 Thread Grant Rettke
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: > Here's a revision of the code to demonstrate: Thanks Danny, that formats as expected. Two questions: 1. Although the code collects the contents of that file in a list, is there a way to splice (for lack of a better term) the contents of that l

[racket] Question about syntax splicing and formatting of the resulting code body

2013-01-09 Thread Grant Rettke
Hi, I have the goal of inserting some Jess (http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov/) code inside of a Scribble interaction environment (eventually I will have a language to evaluate this but I'm not there yet). Here is the relevant part of the code I have to do that: #lang racket (define (my-read-syntax

Re: [racket] Installing a reader macro in Scribble

2013-01-08 Thread Grant Rettke
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > The `#' character is not an escape character in Scribble. It's treated > as literal text, just like the letter "a" or a comma. > Oh I see. > Does simply adding the escape character `@' in front of `#reader' do > what you want? Yes that i

[racket] Installing a reader macro in Scribble

2013-01-08 Thread Grant Rettke
Hi, I have a first goal of loading a file into an @interaction block in side of Scribble. The language to evaluate those values is another story, I just want to get the contents of a file in there. Here is what I have done: ; the file to load ; cat 04-02.clp (watch all) (reset) (defrule do-anyth

[racket] How to disable cross-referencing in Scribble; why inside

2013-01-08 Thread Grant Rettke
Hi, I want to use Scribble for documenting some non-Racket code and will use the eval environment (yet to be done) along with it's nice rendering and display. I don't want scribble attempt to cross reference the language since it will not be do-able and red-lines will appear all over. How do I d

Re: [racket] Dynamically Bind Functions

2012-12-22 Thread Grant Rettke
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Cristian Esquivias wrote: > Is this the general practice? It looks rather cumbersome and difficult to > plan for. Are you wanting to change the behavior of some code that you don't have the code for? Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-

Re: [racket] How to disable a couple of things in drracket

2012-12-21 Thread Grant Rettke
disable the hover-arrows without disabling the error >>>> messages from online compilation? >>>> >>>> Tobias >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:17:59 +0100, Robby Findler >>>> wrote: >&g

Re: [racket] for-each

2012-12-12 Thread Grant Rettke
t work > > > > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > > -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ Wisdom begins in wonder. ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] Racket equivalent to RubyMotion

2012-12-12 Thread Grant Rettke
> > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ Wisdom begins in wonder. ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

[racket] How to make the syntax color things like #:default the same as #lang?

2012-11-30 Thread Grant Rettke
Hi, I would like thinks like #:default to be colored the same as #lang. This is "other" in the color settings. Is there a setting I may change to achieve this? Also how can I change the line number color? By settings, I mean code that I can change, too. Grant -- Grant Rettke | ACM

Re: [racket] How to get paren highlighting with online compilation highlighting too?

2012-11-29 Thread Grant Rettke
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Robby Findler wrote: > The way those highlights work, you are going to see either one or the > other and I think it gets more confusing when the paren highlights > obscure the error highlights (indeed, we have had PRs in the past > claiming that the error highlight

[racket] How to get paren highlighting with online compilation highlighting too?

2012-11-28 Thread Grant Rettke
Hi, With online compilation enabled and "highlight errors in yellow" enabled the highlighting of s-expressions in the yellow area is disabled. This makes it difficult to see where we might want to make changes. How may I get the desired behavior? Grant -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA,

Re: [racket] Call by Name

2012-11-27 Thread Grant Rettke
gt; (for ([n (range 1 1000)]) > (call-by-name (string-append base (number->string n) > > Thanks, > -Joe > > > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.org | http://www.wis

Re: [racket] [racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior\

2012-11-25 Thread Grant Rettke
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 02:50:20PM -0600, Grant Rettke wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid > wrote: > > > > > > My experience is htat when you use a mode like Nadeem is developing

Re: [racket] [racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior\

2012-11-25 Thread Grant Rettke
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid wrote: > > My experience is htat when you use a mode like Nadeem is developing it is >> > impossible to write code with unbalanced parentheses unless specifically >> > desire to do so. >> >> Yes, it gets difficult to do so. But you might start

Re: [racket] [racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior

2012-11-25 Thread Grant Rettke
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > IIUC the xcode thing that was > mentioned tries to improve it by having a visible indication for the > stae, but I still think that the paredit behavr is better here -- when > you press backspace, this is what happens: > > Here are some exam

Re: [racket] [racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior

2012-11-25 Thread Grant Rettke
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Whatever is done, it is essential to be able to edit code where the > parentheses are unbalanced, or match wrong, so that you can correct it. My experience is htat when you use a mode like Nadeem is developing it is impossible to write code

Re: [racket] [racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior

2012-11-24 Thread Grant Rettke
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Nick Shelley wrote: > I sort of like this behavior, and the visual difference gets rid of any > potential confusion. > Just an idea... you might duplicate Paredit's functionality: http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit It is way past beta and has probably gone thro

Re: [racket] Online compilation button missing on 5.3.1 and Lubuntu 12.04?

2012-11-23 Thread Grant Rettke
Everybody should love how easy it is to do stuff like this with your help. Here is a blog: http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/article/6629/this-is-how-easy-it-is-to-make-changes-to-drracket On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Grant Rettke wrote: > It is plenty fast at least on a small file, and t

Re: [racket] Online compilation button missing on 5.3.1 and Lubuntu 12.04?

2012-11-23 Thread Grant Rettke
It is plenty fast at least on a small file, and that is fine with me. On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Grant Rettke wrote: > Thanks! I will try it out. > > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Robby Findler < > ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: > >> This:

Re: [racket] Online compilation button missing on 5.3.1 and Lubuntu 12.04?

2012-11-23 Thread Grant Rettke
, then maybe I can just make the > preference default to disabled on single-core machines instead of > completely disabling it. > > Robby > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Grant Rettke wrote: > > Oh ok. I guess that feature is good for the economy, than :). > > &

Re: [racket] Online compilation button missing on 5.3.1 and Lubuntu 12.04?

2012-11-23 Thread Grant Rettke
plains it, then. It isn't available unless there are at least 2 > cores (it would be painfully sluggish without parallelism, I believe). > > Robby > -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ Wisdom begins in wonder. ((λ (x) (x x)

Re: [racket] Online compilation button missing on 5.3.1 and Lubuntu 12.04?

2012-11-23 Thread Grant Rettke
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Robby Findler wrote: > Do you have more than 1 core? No, single core. Enjoying using Racket and friends running very fast and pleasantly on an old but fast laptop. Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

[racket] Online compilation button missing on 5.3.1 and Lubuntu 12.04?

2012-11-23 Thread Grant Rettke
Hi, Racket 5.3.1 32 bit Ubuntu Karmic download for Lubuntu 12.04 32 bit. Blew away my config directory and started it up. Set lang line and opened a file. Was expecting a little colored LED to the right of the little man in the bottom right hand corner, but there is none. When I right click it t

Re: [racket] What is a good way to learn about functions "like" in this case?

2012-11-23 Thread Grant Rettke
know the (perhaps language-specific) name for it. But then, this is a > problem that apprentices in all kinds of trades have faced for centuries...) > > Best, > Jordan > > On Nov 21, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Grant Rettke wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Today I saw someone use the &#

[racket] On settings up DrRacket... Re: [SPAM] Re: DrRacket for the Truly Impatient V02, need help, beta testers

2012-11-21 Thread Grant Rettke
x27;s window with contract info popping in and >> out as you mouse over identifiers? >> >> If it's the latter, than perhaps it would help to just put more of a delay >> (as tooltips have) in before exposing the contract info. (I'm trying to >> figure out why

Re: [racket] DrRacket for the Truly Impatient V02, need help, beta testers

2012-11-21 Thread Grant Rettke
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid wrote: >> Maybe this would help, I have only used Check Syntax two or three >> times ever when I wanted to rename a variable because it was used in >> more than 5 places. What other problems does it solve? >> > > It catches syntax errors (name ty

Re: [racket] DrRacket for the Truly Impatient V02, need help, beta testers

2012-11-21 Thread Grant Rettke
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Jordan Johnson wrote: > I'm curious what the objectionable distraction is: the mere presence of the > arrow, or the action of the arrow's window with contract info popping in and > out as you mouse over identifiers? Both. Like somebody said to each his own of cour

Re: [racket] DrRacket for the Truly Impatient V02, need help, beta testers

2012-11-21 Thread Grant Rettke
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Grant Rettke wrote: >> You are an accomplished programmer that got this far without online >> compilation that was added this year? > Well, I don't know about others, but

Re: [racket] DrRacket for the Truly Impatient V02, need help, beta testers

2012-11-21 Thread Grant Rettke
languages; I feel like > I'm flying blind. > > John > > > > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ Wisdom begins in wonder. ((λ

Re: [racket] DrRacket for the Truly Impatient V02, need help, beta testers

2012-11-21 Thread Grant Rettke
t of the >> IDE and choose: “Disable online compilation” >> >> I would recommend the opposite in both cases. >> >> Also, the language dialog will change in the upcoming release. You can >> see the current version in git and the nightly build. >> >> Robby >

[racket] What is a good way to learn about functions "like" in this case?

2012-11-21 Thread Grant Rettke
. I tried 'min' and combinations with asterisks before and after and never got argmin as a result. What might I do to achieve something like this? For example, I used AgentRansack and searched the html for 'minimize' and that was one way to do it after digging around. Best wishes

Re: [racket] DrRacket for the Truly Impatient V02, need help, beta testers

2012-11-21 Thread Grant Rettke
3:16 PM, Stephen Bloch wrote: > > On Nov 21, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Grant Rettke wrote: > > > [DrRacket] is so feature rich that the first time you begin using it, > you may end up missing out on how powerful and pleasant it is to use due to > the multitude of options and featur

[racket] DrRacket for the Truly Impatient V02, need help, beta testers

2012-11-21 Thread Grant Rettke
Hi, Looking for reviewers to make this better: http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/?p=6601&preview=true You might be interested in it, it contains one perspective on what are some essential set up tips to get started and feeling good about DrRacket quickly. Best wishes, -- Grant Rettke | ACM,

Re: [racket] DrRacket for the Truly Impatient V02, need help, beta testers

2012-11-21 Thread Grant Rettke
Oops here is the link: http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/article/6601/drracket-for-the-truly-impatient-v02 On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Grant Rettke wrote: > Hi, > > Looking for reviewers to make this better: > > http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/?p=6601&preview=true > >

Re: [racket] How to disable a couple of things in drracket

2012-11-21 Thread Grant Rettke
to. > > Robby > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Grant Rettke wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In DrRacket there are two features: > > > > 1. When you mouse over a symbol and arrow and a popuup show the source > > of that symbol. > > > > 2. When

[racket] How to disable a couple of things in drracket

2012-11-21 Thread Grant Rettke
every settings in the preferences maybe I'm just not seeing it. Best wishes, -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ Wisdom begins in wonder. ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

[racket] Offloading frequently changing prefs out of

2012-11-21 Thread Grant Rettke
t recently used files and stuff like that across different machines. Is there a way out of the box to move those out somwhere else? If not, I volunteer to work on something. If you have an idea how it ought to be done even better. -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.

Re: [racket] Scheme's place in the world

2012-11-21 Thread Grant Rettke
Other than Straight Forth... what would you say is the best Forth available right now for someone wanting to get started with Forth and on real hardware? I'm interested in that vs something like Arduino and Processing for example. >From what I read, and from what a good buddy of mine who is a Fort

Re: [racket] realm of racket (roar!)

2012-11-16 Thread Grant Rettke
t Users list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >> > > > > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ Wisdom begins in wonder. ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] 80-bit precision in Racket

2012-11-15 Thread Grant Rettke
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Neil Toronto wrote: > On 11/14/2012 07:38 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: >> >> I've adjusted the bytecode compiler so that it can deal with more local >> types. To exercise the changes, fixnum results are tracked like flonum >> results, although the JIT doesn't currentl

Re: [racket] realm of racket (roar!)

2012-11-14 Thread Grant Rettke
__ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > -- Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ Wisdom begins in wonder. ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

[racket] Standard recipe for Racket based services and HTML5/Javascript UI webapps?

2012-11-06 Thread Grant Rettke
Hi, At work we are sort of settling on building web applications with HTML5/Javascript client-side UI's backed by services. Java, .NET, and Python are obvious candidates. It makes me curious about what the Racket stack would look like, I mean what is the defacto: * database * database library or O

[racket] More Racket on Heroku

2012-11-06 Thread Grant Rettke
Hi, There are posts out there about Racket on Heroku: https://github.com/onixie/heroku-buildpack-racket I am wondering how are you experiences with it? Having just learned Amazon EC2, Heroku looks pretty nice. Grant Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

[racket] String manipulation without regex opinion

2012-11-06 Thread Grant Rettke
Hi, Usually there are homework problems and stuff for tweaking strings but I was just playing around for the fun of it. I wondered what is the "best way" to do a couple of simple tasks but without regex. Here are two of them. They are not optimized I just wrote them in a way that seemed the simple

Re: [racket] An easy route to define-datatype in BSL?

2012-11-05 Thread Grant Rettke
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Jay McCarthy wrote: > every top-level define (like for 'f') has a special notation on it that > says "I'm a function". Since 'a' doesn't have this, then the macro for app > in BSL can throw an error. > What Racket language feature is used to do that? _

Re: [racket] tutorials on using redex

2012-11-04 Thread Grant Rettke
gLangs/2007-04-26/ >> >> Also, have you seen the Amb tutorial in the Redex docs? >> http://docs.racket-lang.org/redex/tutorial.html >> >> Cheers, >> Asumu >> >> Racket Users list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/use

Re: [racket] An example of let-vs-define: SICP 2.64

2012-11-02 Thread Grant Rettke
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > Just a cautionary tale,+++ > > Good point. Thanks for sharing. Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] An example of let-vs-define: SICP 2.64

2012-11-02 Thread Grant Rettke
ips. > > > > > > I thought the function itself was neat, and just wanted to share. > > ____ > > Racket Users list: > > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > > > > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.o

Re: [racket] A small little random tutorial

2012-10-20 Thread Grant Rettke
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > You could phrase it as "so I decided to write down every result my dad > got and then see how random they really were." Dad is willing to take a 1000 samples right? Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/use

[racket] Preferred business rules engines in or used by Racket?

2012-10-07 Thread Grant Rettke
Hi, May you please share your experience or preferences for rules engines written in or used from Racket? My goal is to: 1. Allow rule definitions separate from the code (though I view rule definitions as programming to be performed by the programmer). 2. Allow rules to be defined in modules. 3.

[racket] Experience using Scrabble evaluators to other languages

2012-10-05 Thread Grant Rettke
e clues or pointers where I might start? Best wishes, Grant Rettke -- ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] Racket gui

2012-10-01 Thread Grant Rettke
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > (The Racket run-time system and compiler is mostly in C, but I think a > lot of it --- especially the compiler --- is likely to move to Racket > in the coming years.) Forgive the dumb question but here goes, are there research opportunities i

Re: [racket] Contracts in interfaces

2012-09-25 Thread Grant Rettke
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Asumu Takikawa wrote: > Yes, it's a new feature that was included in Racket 5.3. Interface > contracts are complementary to `class/c` contracts and work slightly > differently. Most importantly, any class that implements an interface > (either directly or indirect

Re: [racket] Tiny question: Indent `for/fold'

2012-09-17 Thread Grant Rettke
Put the let bindings on one line. On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Greg Hendershott wrote: > A tiny, not very important question: > > 1. for/fold documentation: > > (for/fold ([sum 0] >[rev-roots null]) > ([i '(1 2 3 4)]) > (values (+ sum i) (cons (sqrt i) rev-roots))) > >

Re: [racket] Cube two numbers

2012-09-14 Thread Grant Rettke
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Ashley Fowler wrote: > How would I make it so it will execute both numbers? >>(cube-two 3 4) Ashley play around with it in the REPL first just to see how it works eg: > (* 3 3 3) 27 > ((λ (x) (* x x x)) 3) 27 > (list 27) '(27) > (list 27 59) '(27 59) Then write

[racket] Offtopic: Clojurist Racketeers

2012-09-14 Thread Grant Rettke
Hi, If any of you are also Clojurists then may I email you off list with some questions? Best wishes, Grant -- http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] 8ish

2012-09-10 Thread Grant Rettke
To everyone on the list I am so sorry for accidentally emailing it. On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Michael Wilber wrote: > Good luck at your meeting! All of us on racket-user are cheering for > you. :) > > Grant Rettke writes: >> Hi Caleb, >> >> I'll head

[racket] 8ish

2012-09-10 Thread Grant Rettke
Hi Caleb, I'll head out at about 7:50 so I'll be there about 8:20. Grant Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

[racket] Initial ping: using DrRacket for Clojure

2012-09-09 Thread Grant Rettke
Hi, The primary editor for Clojure seems to be Emacs, which is great. IntelliJ and Eclipse are other options. Staring at DrRacket though I think it is a super editor even if one didn't use all of it's features with Clojure. My goal would be to get DrRacket into a state where it was basically a ri

[racket] Using square parentheses for things that are not callable

2012-09-09 Thread Grant Rettke
Hi, Just listened to Rich Hickey's talk "Simple Made Easy": http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy He mentioned implicitly a coding style where anything that is not callable uses a square bracket. The let family is one example. I think another one that fits are class constructors for

Re: [racket] Question

2012-09-05 Thread Grant Rettke
Only works for 3 elements lists. On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Michael Wilber wrote: > What's the difference between this and (reverse LS) ? > > Ashley Fowler writes: > > Can anybody help me with this problem? I have an idea but would like > some suggestions on how to start. The problem is be

[racket] Influence of T

2012-07-01 Thread Grant Rettke
Just read about T: http://mumble.net/~jar/tproject/index.html http://www.paulgraham.com/thist.html Did it inspire any particular features of Racket? Just curious sorry if off topic, kill post as you see fit. Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

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