On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > Two minutes ago, Joan Arnaldich wrote: >> >> Besides that, IMHO, I do think it is useful for readers interested >> in knowing more about a programming language (say, before deciding >> if they're going to invest some time learning it or not) to see >> actual examples of this kind, without leaving wikipedia, if only to >> get a taste of what can be done and how code looks like... even more >> in Racket's case, where it can be strange for a newcomer to >> understand why code can look so different... > > That makes a lot of sense -- thanks for making up that page. There > are obvious advantages for such a page: people can see things within > the nice unified world of wikipedia that they're used to -- it's true > that we make our examples very obvious, but at least I know exactly > the kind of users that you're talking about -- I'm an example of this > too, every time that I just click a wikipedia link to get a brief > overview since I'm too lazy to start navigating a new site.
It is more important than is perhaps obvious to us list-subscribers. The notion of Racket supporting "different languages" is from what I've seen both on-list and face-to-face with other developers a very, very weird idea. Even to Schemers! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
