Matthias Felleisen writes: > Neil, I wrote this paper _because_ academia perceives Racket as a cult.
Wow. I must be missing something interesting. Is there some tutorial on the Rites of Racket? ;-) I am in academia, but quite remote from the Racket hotspots both thematically and geographically. As far as I can remember, I have never spoken to anyone in real life who uses Racket or who just knows a Racket user in person. From this distant point of view, Racket looks like a community of people working on a common goal, and the manifesto describes that goal very well. What strikes me is that the manifesto gives a very different view of Racket than the Racket Web site does. The latter emphasizes Racket as a teaching environment and as a "batteries included" general-purpose language. The features related to language development are documented in the reference sections, but there isn't much to motivate them. It's only from the manifesto that I started to see the point of having inspectors and custodians, for example. In my opinion, it would be interesting to develop a pedagogical approach to the language development theme in the form of tutorials, books, or presentations. Maybe even a "teaching language" with a simplified version of syntax/parse. The goal would be both to lower the entry barrier to the most interesting aspects of the Racket universe, and to gain insight by teaching, i.e. find better ways to do things in the future. Konrad. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
