Please join me in recognizing a historic day for Racket. It has been 15 years since the creation of the Racket module system, which was introduced to the world with the modesty typical of Matthew, in a commit containing the single character, ".":
https://github.com/samth/old-plt/commit/79104357a355132eaf13fb3d8dd1d1a514414b53 >From humble beginnings, module.c has gone from 340 lines to 12,729 lines today (about 2 lines per day). We have seen amazing features like submodules and functions like syntax-local-lift-module-end-declaration. So much of what we now think of as essential to the Racket way would not be possible without our unique and powerful module system and phase-based compilation of it. May I suggest a reading of "Composable and Compilable Macros: You Want it When?" as an appropriate way to celebrate? https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/macromod.pdf Enjoy! Jay -- Jay McCarthy Associate Professor PLT @ CS @ UMass Lowell http://jeapostrophe.github.io "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." - D&C 64:33 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAJYbDakijD7u8o5fPvPVmysPrSByV7venBB3otqPVuOGW-a07A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
