I still haven't found time to actually try out leo. I'm interested in how it could be used as a python ide. Are there any tutorials regarding this or other references? (I use emacs as python ide now).
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 7:02 PM Chris George <technat...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
