Justin is right other than the Java part. Eli is right with the amendment of -1 for the suggestion that Java has good parts worth borrowing. (-:
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > 20 minutes ago, Justin Zamora wrote: >> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 3:20 AM, D Herring <dherr...@tentpost.com> wrote: >> > You might emphasize that Racket is a "new language, borrowing the >> > best parts of Scheme (and other languages?) and extending it with >> > these features"... >> >> A sentence like that would be a good replacement for the awful, >> "Racket is a programming language" currently on the front page of >> racket-lang.org Perhaps something like "Racket is a new language >> that borrows the best parts of Scheme, Java, and other languages and >> extends them with advanced features such as contracts, types, >> user-defined languages, a complete GUI framework and other modern >> features." > > -1 for any mention of Java. > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
