Hi,
can the text on the home page be changed from
Racket is a programming language
to
Racket is the coolest programming language on earth.
Spend a bit of time with it, and your programs will
grow more beautiful in front of your eyes every day
of your life. - M.F.
Thanks,
Stephen
Do you mean that it requires JS to work? What about non-JS browsers?
(There are some people who find it important -- I've even made some
changes to the front page to make it friendlier to text browsers.)
On 2011-05-07, Noel Welsh noelwe...@gmail.com wrote:
Sure does. We have a Javascript
You have to contact the Myna server somehow to get suggestions. You
can do this via the server or via the client, with the usual
tradeoffs. I would go with the JS client as it's much faster to set
up, and code the HTML in such a way that it still works if JS is
disabled. (This is straightforward,
Right now, we're already using JS to decide which of the 3 initial
code snippets to display. So, why not start with using Noel's tool
for that, and go from there? We already have a built-in group of
possibilities to measure, and we're already using JavaScript.
As an aside, I suspect that
6 hours ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
Right now, we're already using JS to decide which of the 3 initial
code snippets to display.
We're using it for more -- to flip through the examples. Most of
these browsers won't even use the CSS so things that should be hidden
are not. So the change I
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Justin Zamora jus...@zamora.com wrote:
A sentence like that would be a good replacement for the awful,
Racket is a programming language currently on the front page of
racket-lang.org
We are men of science; untested hypotheses do not become us. Luckily,
your
I assume it's not news that racket.org is owned by a museum curator in
sweden?
(He says after typing racket.org)
S.
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Noel Welsh noelwe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Justin Zamora jus...@zamora.com wrote:
A sentence like that would be a
Racket -- Squash your bugs with it!
On 05/05/2011 01:26 PM, Rex Page wrote:
Bugs in your programs?
Racket can help.
On Wed, 4 May 2011, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
Racket is the coolest programming language on earth.
Spend a bit of time with it, and your programs will
grow more beautiful
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From: dev-boun...@racket-lang.org
[mailto:dev-boun...@racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Eduardo Bellani
snip
--
Eduardo Bellani
omnia mutantur, nihil interit.
The word 'omnia' frequently leads to contradictions, particularly when
applying a sentence containing
In retrospect I think this post was a bit opaque. So, some exposition:
We have a hypothesis: changing the description of Racket will increase
adoption. We can measure this and optimise for it. The measure of
adoption could be doesn't bounce or downloads Racket, for example.
(Bouncing means
For what time period should we leave the description constant to test this
conjecture?
On May 6, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Noel Welsh wrote:
In retrospect I think this post was a bit opaque. So, some exposition:
We have a hypothesis: changing the description of Racket will increase
adoption.
The technology Noel is suggesting randomly chooses whether to give the
current description, or some new description (which we would have to
write). Then it measures which description leads more people to
download Racket.
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Matthias Felleisen
matth...@ccs.neu.edu
Matthias Felleisen wrote at 05/06/2011 10:41 AM:
For what time period should we leave the description constant to test this conjecture?
Someone mathematically-inclined did something similar-sounding a
decade(?) ago, for US national political campaign fund-raising. From
what I could
An hour ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
The technology Noel is suggesting randomly chooses whether to give
the current description, or some new description (which we would
have to write). Then it measures which description leads more
people to download Racket.
The question is whether it
(FWIW, I don't have any strong issues with Java, but refering to the
best parts of Java is asking to be made into a joke.)
Yesterday, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
Justin is right other than the Java part. Eli is right with the
amendment of -1 for the suggestion that Java has good parts worth
AFAICT a lot of the appeal of Clojure is that it is lisp + jvm + java
libraries, and the boosters already know what that is. For racket-lang
there is a lot more to communicate. It's not a sensible comparison.
S.
On Thursday, May 5, 2011, Eli Barzilay wrote:
(FWIW, I don't have any strong
On 04/29/2011 12:10 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
On Apr 29, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
Scheme is usually a liability when someone used it in school years ago
(other than with HtDP).
Sad.
but true. Exacerbated by lecturers who refused to keep up with the
world around
20 minutes ago, Justin Zamora wrote:
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 3:20 AM, D Herring dherr...@tentpost.com wrote:
You might emphasize that Racket is a new language, borrowing the
best parts of Scheme (and other languages?) and extending it with
these features...
A sentence like that would be a
Justin is right other than the Java part. Eli is right with the
amendment of -1 for the suggestion that Java has good parts worth
borrowing. (-:
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote:
20 minutes ago, Justin Zamora wrote:
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 3:20 AM, D Herring
Racket is the coolest programming language on earth.
Spend a bit of time with it, and your programs will
grow more beautiful in front of your eyes every day
of your life.
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On 05/01/2011 02:20 AM, D Herring wrote:
Also collect a set of cool programs for people to use. It is easier
for people to understand this was implemented in Racket than Racket's
features might let me make that. Many people make decisions based on
first impressions. When I was an undergrad, I
This is just one random guy, but it's interesting to see how Racket is
perceived.
Excerpts from a conversation on stackoverflow about Racket:
Thanks. And that's why I'm starting to learn to dislike Scheme, despite
everything else. – MCXXIII yesterday
In that case, it's a good thing
What's the benefit of using regexp-match instead of port-string ?
Thanks,
Dave
On 04/29/2011 07:23 AM, John Clements wrote:
This is just one random guy, but it's interesting to see how Racket is
perceived.
Excerpts from a conversation on stackoverflow about Racket:
Thanks. And
The Web is full of outdated and/or ill-informed references to PLT and
Racket. People see these, and the bad information propagates
memetically -- perpetuating and increasing.
One thing Racket people could do is a one-time blitz of existing bad
info all over the Web, to correct as many of
Thanks John for the report. Two questions please:
1. Could you point me to a standards document for Clojure?
2. Could you point me to a criteria that classify Racket as a 'fringe' language
and Clojure as a non-fringe language?
-- Matthias
On Apr 29, 2011, at 10:23 AM, John Clements
On Apr 29, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
Scheme is usually a liability when someone used it in school years ago
(other than with HtDP).
Sad.
Thanks for the idea. -- Matthias
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Scheme is usually a liability when someone used it in school years ago
(other than with HtDP).
Small anecdote: I had gone a small presentation at WPI about teaching
alternative concurrent programming models to undergraduates. The
presenter wanted to explore teaching with channels and actors.
On Apr 29, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Danny Yoo wrote:
Scheme is usually a liability when someone used it in school years ago
(other than with HtDP).
Small anecdote: I had gone a small presentation at WPI about teaching
alternative concurrent programming models to undergraduates. The
presenter
8 minutes ago, Danny Yoo wrote:
Scheme is usually a liability when someone used it in school
years ago (other than with HtDP).
Small anecdote: I had gone a small presentation at WPI about
teaching alternative concurrent programming models to
undergraduates. The presenter wanted to
The last chapter of _Picturing Programs_ is entitled Next Steps. It mentions
HtDP, HtDP2e, HtDW, HtDC, and a list of advanced Racket topics: the Web server,
modules, racket/contract, classes, macros, stand-alone executables, and GUI and
graphics libraries. Most of these topics (not to mention
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Matthias Felleisen
matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote:
2. Could you point me to a criteria that classify Racket as a 'fringe'
language
and Clojure as a non-fringe language?
This is no criterion, but it is suggestive:
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