extracted from this blog post, this gets my vote for official magnificently awesome Racket slogan:
"Racket: an organized Scheme" John Begin forwarded message: > From: Kyle Smith <noreply-comm...@blogger.com> > Date: June 17, 2010 7:43:22 PM PDT > To: blog-po...@racket-lang.org > Subject: [The Racket Blog] New comment on Racket. > > Kyle Smith has left a new comment on your post "Racket": > > Racket is just an organized scheme. The name still brings up connotations of > something nefarious. What is in a name? I'm good with it if it continues to > run on a proper OpenBSD platform. Will Apple let something, so expressive as > ‘Racket’, the honor of being available from their apps store, for use with > the iPad? Now that would be the app to write, however, unless Apple has > changed their minds, no interpretive languages, that I'm aware of, have made > it to iTunes. I wonder if they would allow a syntax informed code editor to > be offered for the iPad. If they actually could keep folks from hacking their > product, then they might have my support; but they can't put enough > restraints on their SDK, to adequatelty maintain system security, so why > bother with the silly attempts at maintaining control. I believe the answer > can be seen with clarity if one looks at a five year chart of Apple stock. If > you wish to call it Racket, then let's make some noise with it. You really do > need to offer for sale Racket logo'd posters, cups, t-shirts, baseball hats, > and stickers for my four year old son. > > --kyle > > > > Posted by Kyle Smith to The Racket Blog at June 17, 2010 10:43 PM
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