Re: [racket-users] My son's game in Racket

2015-08-24 Thread Joel McCracken
FYI, I think the Mac version is out of date. Dropbox says the mac installer file is two weeks old, and the windows version is a few hours old. On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:27 PM, John Carmack jo...@oculus.com wrote: We “released” my 10 year old son’s game that was done in Racket: www.1k3c.com

Re: [racket-users] eval PSA (was Sending Closures to Places)

2015-08-05 Thread Joel McCracken
One example of eval being used for extremely practical purposes is with SQL. Many practical programmers regularly generate SQL strings which are then passed to a remote server, which are then evaluated. Indeed, all the same sorts of arguments against eval may be made against SQL: 1. SQL is

Re: [racket-users] Correction: Half-life was *not* written in a Lisp after all.

2015-07-25 Thread Joel McCracken
Crash bandicoot is the one example I know. Is that what you were thinking of? Sent from my iPhone On Jul 25, 2015, at 8:02 AM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 12:04:07AM +, John Carmack wrote: Half-life was written in C on my Quake 1 codebase. Thank

Re: [racket-users] What limits would you put on racket?

2015-07-23 Thread Joel McCracken
I think he's asking, when would you *not* use racket for something? What problems is it particularly suited towards, and what areas is it weak in? I'd also like to know how the list would answer this. PS sorry for forgetting to cc the list on my last msg Matthais. On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 9:59

Re: [racket-users] Emacs Lisp as a Racket Language?

2015-07-02 Thread Joel McCracken
This is an excellent idea. I have no idea if this is being worked on, but I would love to help such an effort. On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Greg Davidson greg.david...@gmail.com wrote: Is there interest in creating a Gnu Emacs Lisp Racket Language, along with the underlying APIs (perhaps