Racket has helped turn me into a kind of agnostic, insomniac, autodidact. I lay awake all night wondering if next I should learn more about Linux, Mac or Windows.
(Yeah, yeah, I know. It's not nearly as good the original: "Did you hear the one about the agnostic, dyslexic, insomniac? He lay awake all night wondering if there's a dog.") On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Greg Hendershott <[email protected]> wrote: > After working in C/C++ on Windows for nearly 25 years, for some reason > I got it into my head I wanted to learn Scheme. > > I settled on PLT Scheme. I liked the IDE and docs. > > I spent months with my brain going eh, huh, what? > > I got through that. I got a lot of help from the amazing people on this list. > > At some point I noticed a lot of folks are using Emacs. > > I installed Emacs (my fingers vaguely remembering Epsilon from 20 > years ago). I installed this great thing called Quack, contributed by > someone with a name really similar to yours, Neil. ;) > > I installed Cygwin, and I installed msysGit which has Git Bash. > > I used Terminal my secondary laptop, a Mac. > > After awhile I said what the hey and spooled up a $0.02 per hour Linux > instance from EC2. I got lost and found a few dozen times, and had fun > and stretched my brain in more ways. > > At this point I'm rotating among Windows 7 on a ThinkPad, a Mac, and a > Linux server. I'm really enjoying it. I see what they have in common, > where they each shine. > > The common threads are Racket, Emacs, bash. > > The gateway was Racket. > > The team that has created Racket and the community that supports it is > truly special. I am very grateful for the welcoming, patient, and > accepting attitude that has been extended to me by everyone. > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Neil Van Dyke <[email protected]> wrote: >> Forgive me, but this could stand to be mentioned at least once a year, as a >> reminder... PC hardware tends to become more useful for most technical work >> if one erases Windows and installs GNU/Linux. >> >> (Nowadays, with GNU/Linux being the technical and server platform, and most >> things being doable in a Web browser or on a phone, Windows is mostly useful >> for two purposes: as a program loader for FPS video games, and for >> secretaries who still like to email around .doc files that only work with >> the latest version of MS Word.) >> >> >> Stephen Chang wrote at 03/09/2011 06:18 PM: >>> >>> You can build on Windows with VC Express. You just cant use the build.bat >>> script bc there's no devenv. If you use the vcbuild command line tool that >>> comes with VC express, you get some errors. >> >> -- >> http://www.neilvandyke.org/ >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users >> > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
