On behalf of many Racket implementors --- thank you! It's nice to hear when things work.
At Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:44:26 -0400, Sean McBeth wrote: > Dear Racketeers, > > I'm starting a project in earnest in Racket and spent about an hour last > night getting some baseline stuff set up. Most of that time was spent > figuring out how to get Postgres running, having been experienced in > setting up only SQL Server and MySQL. > > A very bare minimum amount of time was spent typing "(require (planet > ryanc/db))" into the top of my file, entering the very few configuration > settings, and having immediate access to my database. It was such a > pleasure to setup in comparison to the many and vast DB connection > libraries for other, lesser programming languages I've used over the last > 10 years. > > And this was only the latest in other, similarly awesome discoveries within > Racket. My mind was absolutely blown the other day when I saw that > threading could be as simple as wrapping a call to (thread) around my > procedure. Or that there was this amazing Racket to Javascript translator > that Just Worked, unlike some other languages that claim to have the same > thing but shall not be mentioned (*cough*Clojure*cough*). Or the simplicity > and power of the math library. Or that it wasn't just the trendy Web stuff > that you guys cared about, that there was tons of other code for plenty of > other uses, without just punting out to a foreign-function interface all > the time, unlike some other languages that have already been mentioned > through throat-clearing-maneuvers. Or that it setup on all of my > machines--Windows, Linux, and OS X--exactly the same without any extra > effort, unlike... well, you get the point. > > Anyway, thanks for being so awesome. Racket is awesome, PLaneT is awesome, > the community is awesome, and it all comes together in one amazingly > coherent and awesome package. And that's awesome. > > Love, > -Sean > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
