On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 11:27:06AM -0700, Josh Rubin wrote: > > > On Saturday, May 11, 2019 at 10:15:56 AM UTC-4, Josh Rubin wrote: > <SNIPPED MY ENTIRE POST> > > I apologize for replying to myself. > > They say "Hello World" is the hardest program, because you have to stumble > so much. > Without reading any documentation I put some plausible stuff in a text > file. I now have a 13 MB executable that can be distributed and prints > "Hello World." > > I have questions. > (1) Should I be trying to *port* old Scheme code to Racket (a big job) or > should I be *creating a language* that mostly runs the old code as is?
Honestly, I think I'd try both. If your trying to get back into coding, porting one program over and trying to write a new language for the other(s) may well teach you things taking one approach over the other wouldn't have. YMMV, of course. > > (2) Should I record all my false starts and confusions in a blog called "An > old man tries to learn Racket"? > Might interest struggling racketeers, or people who try to teach them. I'd read it. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/20190511192110.GA29575%40selen. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
