Matthias, hello. On 2013 Feb 22, at 18:25, Matthias Felleisen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I've just changed the category page >> <http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Racket> to say that "Racket (at one >> time called PLT Scheme) is a language in the Scheme family", so we'll see >> what sort of fight that starts. > > > Thanks for taking the initiative. I think this is the wrong phrase, however. > We tend to say we're a member of the LISP and Scheme family of languages, and > in this day and age, we should say that Racket, like Clojure, is an > independent member of the Lisp and Scheme family of languages. Duly adjusted: > Racket (at one time called 'PLT Scheme') is a member of the Lisp and Scheme > family of languages. The Racket language (like Clojure, for example) draws > freely from the various strands of its lineage. > • Home page > • Wikipedia (Just by the way (and whirling off at a tangent), is there a method/rhetoric/clannishness to your capitalisation of LISP? If one wanted to avoid 'Lisp', then I'd have guessed that 'LisP' would be the preferred form, but that looks just weird) All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
