-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 20-12-11 21:28, Eli Barzilay wrote: > | platform for language design and implementation. > > That means almost nothing to most people. Even something like > "Racket is a Programmable Language" works better... I don't think > that there's a way to make it clear in a short sentence, but if > there is, it should most definitely get included.
Some while ago you and me talked on irc about a short one-sentence description of the racket package for Gentoo. IIRC the conclusion was that you weren't unhappy with me using: Racket is a general-purpose programming language with strong support for domain-specific languages. Maybe that is a good start to finally improve over just "Racket is a programming language.". Since I'm talking, I might as well mention my personal opinion on the strong points of racket (besides the (non-)obvious ones of having advanced macros, first-class continuations and all that kind of stuff) since these might be worth mentioning on the front page: *) The cross-platform native GUI library is a big part of why I'm interested in Racket at all. It looks like the plot library makes this already awesome (and I believe still quite unique) feature even more awesome (at least for the applications that I'm interested in these days). *) The support for writing web applications in ordinary direct style. Though I haven't really tried it out yet, if the times comes I would definitely try racket for this first. Marijn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7xoPkACgkQp/VmCx0OL2x6QACfdjGoHJZzG7JTyhpcy5nMig6x 2ZgAn0W4eD0xf6DYTWh+xkMxxamJcTTC =1LGq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev