On Mar 5, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote:
> 10 minutes ago, mikel evins wrote: >> >> But not having the capability to save and load an image provides no >> advantages. Anything you can do without that capability, you can do >> with it. The reverse is not true. > > I'm not going to reply to each of your points (partly because I know > how many of them hold, and partly because it will get tedious and > off-topic...). But the above is not a fair thing to say: of course on > the face of things you don't lose anything by having an extra feature. > > But looking at it more deeply I certainly lose something -- I lose the > ability to use source code for development, Come again? How does that happen? It has certainly never happened to me. > which could be a real > problem for me if I'm working on some code with someone remote and all > we have to communicate are binary images. Well, sure, if I were suddenly somehow denied access to sources and made to communicate with colleagues only through binary images, that would be a bad thing, but I'm not losing any sleep over the possibility. Matter of fact, it never occurred to me before this moment that it could ever be a possibility. --me _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
