I've made a PR with a draft 'languages' page for the site. I have created a curated list of languages in pr #89 that has some example languages to show the flexibility of Racket with respect to Syntax, semantics, ffi, and targets (javascript, assembler, html)
It is a first draft so I'm hoping for feedback on how it can be improved. (Sadly it doesn't express the spectrum of languages Matthias mentioned.) https://github.com/racket/racket-lang-org/pull/89 https://github.com/racket/racket-lang-org/issues/90 On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 11:08 PM Matthias Felleisen <matth...@felleisen.org> wrote: > > > The ycombinator post shows so many misunderstandings of the basic issue, > it’s seriously sad. Here are some: > > 1. S-expression syntax does not mean it’s the same semantics. > 2. The means of implementation in Racket are radically different from a > lexer-parser approach. > 3. The nature of languages ranges from > — stand-alone languages with ugly syntax (example: datalog) > — #lang stand-alone DSLs (config, scribble) > — #lang language mixins (s-expr, 2d) > — embedded DSLs with mostly coarse-grained interactions with > Racket (redex) > — embedded DSLs with fine-grained interaction with Racket (the > language of class syntax; syntax-parse: the pattern and templated > languages, which interact via syn-pattern vars) > All of these are available via libraries. And I am almost sure I > am forgetting some classes of languages here. > > I suspect that if we collected the languages in just these categories, > we’d easily find over a hundred if not several hundred in both our code > base as well as external code repos. > > Thanks for taking up the battle against this lack of knowledge out there — > Matthias > > > > > > -- 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.
