Re: [racket] My new Racket blog....

2012-09-07 Thread Greg Hendershott
I meant to post this earlier. I've really enjoyed your blog. The series on continuations was particularly helpful for me. Two areas I've found very challenging to grasp are continuations and macros. I think multiple reasons why, but one is that I simply need to slow down, take it step by step, wor

Re: [racket] My new Racket blog....

2012-09-03 Thread prad
Jay McCarthy writes: > you may find it > interesting :) > i do though i have much to learn before i understand it. i'm still just a utilitarian scripter right now. :D so this will help expand the horizon. i did understand the salient points of your shower article though. :D -- in friendship,

Re: [racket] My new Racket blog....

2012-09-02 Thread Joe Gilray
Hi Jay, OK, that helped. Now it cannot find: "/usr/share/dict/words" -Joe On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Jay McCarthy wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Joe Gilray wrote: > > Hi Jay, > > > > Since your post, I've been reading and thoroughly enjoying your blog... > > thank you! > > > >

Re: [racket] My new Racket blog....

2012-09-01 Thread Jay McCarthy
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Joe Gilray wrote: > Hi Jay, > > Since your post, I've been reading and thoroughly enjoying your blog... > thank you! > > Some newbie questions and comments: > > 1) I clicked the "download" button on your boggle posting and read it into > DrRacket (5.3). When I hit

Re: [racket] My new Racket blog....

2012-08-30 Thread Joe Gilray
Hi Jay, Since your post, I've been reading and thoroughly enjoying your blog... thank you! Some newbie questions and comments: 1) I clicked the "download" button on your boggle posting and read it into DrRacket (5.3). When I hit run I get: ..\..\..\Program Files\Racket\collects\mred\private\sn

Re: [racket] My new Racket blog....

2012-08-03 Thread Paulo J. Matos
On 01/08/12 17:09, Jay McCarthy wrote: I've recently started a blog about interesting Racket programs and features... http://jeapostrophe.github.com/ I just finished a series on continuation marks, and before that one on using continuations to implement threads... you may find it interesting :)

Re: [racket] My new Racket blog....

2012-08-01 Thread Rodolfo Carvalho
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: > I've recently started a blog about interesting Racket programs and > features... > > http://jeapostrophe.github.com/ > > I just finished a series on continuation marks, and before that one on > using continuations to implement threads... you m

Re: [racket] My new Racket blog....

2012-08-01 Thread Jackson Lawler
Very nice! On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: > I've recently started a blog about interesting Racket programs and > features... > > http://jeapostrophe.github.com/ > > I just finished a series on continuation marks, and before that one on > using continuations to implement thre

Re: [racket] My new Racket blog....

2012-08-01 Thread Danny Yoo
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: > I've recently started a blog about interesting Racket programs and features... > > http://jeapostrophe.github.com/ > > I just finished a series on continuation marks, and before that one on > using continuations to implement threads... you may

[racket] My new Racket blog....

2012-08-01 Thread Jay McCarthy
I've recently started a blog about interesting Racket programs and features... http://jeapostrophe.github.com/ I just finished a series on continuation marks, and before that one on using continuations to implement threads... you may find it interesting :) Jay -- Jay McCarthy Assistant Profes