The second comment by slaymaker1907 is more progressive and closer to the truth no doubt. I merely meant to say that it does feel odd to take off parens off such a great scheme/lisp. But if there’s an elegant way to do it while maintaining all its power AND making it more approachable, all the better. If we could have the best of both worlds, Racket could appeal to a much wider audience.
Like others have said, it also takes time for people to understand the potential, like it took me years to warm up to the idea of lisp in general, and months before I began really seeing a difference in my projects after picking Racket up. No matter what the outcome, this is exciting. Simply contemplating the prospect of the evolution of such a powerful abstraction tool is exciting, and inspiring. Dex > On Jul 23, 2019, at 3:21 PM, Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote: > > Dexter Lagan wrote on 7/23/19 3:32 AM: >> Like the first HN comment said, > > Currently 71 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20490423 > > FWIW, due to how the HN post was done, I don't know how representative the > comments are of professional developers. The link was posted around 5pm > California time last night, and got 92 points, but had fallen off the front > page by early this morning Boston time. (It could reappear this morning on > the front page, and get more representative comments, iff it organically gets > voted back up as Californians wake up. But please no "brigade" voting, as > that's against the rules, bad form, and the admins can tell.) > > -- > 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/6099bb78-7b2e-2749-0ed2-d19585a2f28b%40neilvandyke.org. -- 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/CD94ED47-9423-4348-9F97-560C4B9DAF69%40gmail.com.
