AFAICT a lot of the appeal of Clojure is that it is lisp + jvm + java libraries, and the boosters already know what that is. For racket-lang there is a lot more to communicate. It's not a sensible comparison.
S. On Thursday, May 5, 2011, Eli Barzilay wrote: > (FWIW, I don't have any strong issues with Java, but refering to "the > best parts of Java" is asking to be made into a joke.) > > > Yesterday, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: >> 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 wrote: >> > 20 minutes ago, Justin Zamora wrote: >> >> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 3:20 AM, D Herring 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 > -- -- Stephen De Gabrielle stephen.degabrie...@acm.org Telephone +44 (0)20 85670911 Mobile +44 (0)79 85189045 http://www.degabrielle.name/stephen _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
