Wow, that was fast. It's pretty cool to see such proactive change in a project happen so quickly.
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Ryan Culpepper <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> ____________________ >> Racket Users list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/**users<http://lists.racket-lang.org/users> >> >> >
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