Thanks for the kind words! Just a note: the db library is now part of
the Racket distribution. Use (require db) instead. I just added a note
to the PLaneT entry.
Ryan
On 04/29/2013 01:44 PM, 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
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