HI all, I would personally be unhappy if in racketlang2 we would remove the (). I don't think they represent a real issue.
Just to share my personal experience a professional programmer. I learned clojure like 7 months ago and now I'm learning racketlang and I never felt the () as a barrier. best Am Freitag, 26. Juli 2019 03:42:14 UTC+2 schrieb Greg Hendershott: > > > I've taught the exact same material at the start of a 3rd year CS PL > > course, and the students there didn't find the syntax as easy as one > would > > hope for students with that much CS “experience”. In fact, > unsurprisingly, > > many find the syntax as hard as expected for having trained on very > > different syntaxes (especially when they are unclear about the semantics > > that were attached to those syntaxes). Although the switch to teaching > the > > start of the course with literally the same materials, with the students > > knowing that, seems to have reduced resistance substantially (presumably > > they don't want to be seen as complaining about something 1st year > > humantities students are fine with). > > This makes me wonder if some experienced programmers dislike simple > syntax, not just because it is unfamiliar to them, but also because it > is too simple to serve as an effective in-group filter. If humanities > students are comfortable, we must raise the barrier to entry. ;) > > > p.s. I just now stumbled across the Iron Ring obtained from the Ritual > of the Calling of an Engineer. Probably everyone has heard of this > except me, but if anyone hasn't: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_of_the_Calling_of_an_Engineer > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/f7776433-d445-45cc-9da1-87ae29943806%40googlegroups.com.
