I read an article on Racket a couple of months ago. I installed it and spent a bit of time with it and promptly forgot about it.
Then a week or so ago I followed a link from one of Offray's comments to read all about Pollen. Imagine my surprise when I discovered/remembered I had already installed Racket. Chris On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 1:31 PM john lunzer <lun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I seem to remember you saying that you're a writer. Let me know if you end up > using Scribble (and subsequently Pollen) at all, they both look super > interesting. > > On Monday, February 25, 2019 at 9:33:24 AM UTC-5, Chris George wrote: >> >> I recently got interested in Racket. >> >> https://programbydesign.org/materials >> >> Chris >> >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 5:54 AM john lunzer <lun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Thanks, I've read this before but I read it again. The quality of "power" >> > as Dr. Graham describes it is only useful if it can be accessed. >> > >> > If you're a startup and your goal is to make a huge splash and obliterate >> > your competitors, as he implies, then a nuclear powered programming >> > language could help. If you work for a large company in a mixed discipline >> > team with a large legacy of code then a nuclear powered language with less >> > than upper tier readability is going to hold your team back long enough >> > for your competitors to "crush" you. In my experience lisps struggle in >> > the readability department. >> > >> > Maybe things are different now than they were in 2001. Perhaps lisps do >> > have great power, but if 18 years has proven anything it's that the power >> > of lisps is not accessible (and therefor has low utility) to the vast >> > majority of those who program. On both the TIOBE and PYPL indexes there >> > are no lisps in the top 20 and only a single functional language (scala, >> > at 14 on PYPL). Redmonk is more generous, which has scala at 12 and >> > haskell at 19, but still has no lisps. To be clear I'm not making any >> > judgement on the "goodness" of lisps or functional languages. I'm noting >> > trends in an effort to show that choosing a programming language based >> > only on "power" is not an intelligent choice. >> > >> > Readability and accessibility fuel my ability to program effectively, I >> > have not felt the need for more power. My biggest needs as a professional >> > engineer (who mostly programs all day) have been better tools, better >> > organization, and better documentation. Perhaps that is how I ended up in >> > the Leo community as those three things appear to be pillars of the >> > community. >> > >> > On Monday, February 25, 2019 at 3:05:15 AM UTC-5, Matt Wilkie wrote: >> >>> >> >>> [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "leo-editor" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> > email to leo-editor+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To post to this group, send email to leo-e...@googlegroups.com. >> > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
