[racket-dev] Possible promotional poster (with apologies to Matthias)

2012-02-18 Thread Neil Toronto
Jay had a cool idea to make propagan--er, promotional posters. The attached SVG isn't the style Jay wanted (like the Obama "Hope" posters) but I kinda like it. It's here: http://students.cs.byu.edu/~ntoronto/matthias-poster.svg Comments and criticisms? I'm not sure where to put the PLT logo.

Re: [racket-dev] Possible promotional poster (with apologies to Matthias)

2012-02-18 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:56:22 -0700, Neil Toronto wrote: > Jay had a cool idea to make propagan--er, promotional posters. The > attached SVG isn't the style Jay wanted (like the Obama "Hope" posters) > but I kinda like it. It's here: > > http://students.cs.byu.edu/~ntoronto/matthias-poster.svg >

Re: [racket-dev] Possible promotional poster (with apologies to Matthias)

2012-02-18 Thread Matthias Felleisen
I'm lovin it (isn't that what they say now?) You restored my hair, better than it ever was :-) Let's send out a 1000 of them to colleges around the country. On Feb 18, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Neil Toronto wrote: > Jay had a cool idea to make propagan--er, promotional posters. The attached > SVG

[racket-dev] Fwd: [PRL] Julia: new language for scientific computing

2012-02-18 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Begin forwarded message: > From: Asumu Takikawa > Date: February 18, 2012 10:58:14 AM EST > To: PRL > Subject: [PRL] Julia: new language for scientific computing > > http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/ > > Heavily inspired by Lisp, but aimed at scientific computation. It

Re: [racket-dev] Possible promotional poster (with apologies to Matthias)

2012-02-18 Thread Robby Findler
How about: Not enough languages in your life? Download Racket and add a few hundred more. We could go the self-deprecating route: Not enough parens in your life? (((Download Racket))) Or the aggressive route: Tired of small, beautiful languages? Download Racket and get something do

Re: [racket-dev] Possible promotional poster (with apologies to Matthias)

2012-02-18 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Robby Findler wrote: > How about: > >  Not enough languages in your life? >  Download Racket and add a few hundred more. I like this a lot. Or, with the Matthias theme: I want YOU to build your own language [1] [1] http://fellowshiproom.files.wordpress.com/20

Re: [racket-dev] Possible promotional poster (with apologies to Matthias)

2012-02-18 Thread Neil Toronto
On 02/18/2012 09:03 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote: At Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:56:22 -0700, Neil Toronto wrote: Jay had a cool idea to make propagan--er, promotional posters. The attached SVG isn't the style Jay wanted (like the Obama "Hope" posters) but I kinda like it. It's here: http://students.cs.byu.

Re: [racket-dev] Possible promotional poster (with apologies to Matthias)

2012-02-18 Thread Robby Findler
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Neil Toronto wrote: > Another angle: what aspects of > Racket do we want to advertise? Language building. I think it would be good to pick a specific formula for the messages (and also to keep a similar style in the pictures). I don't think we really need to ti

Re: [racket-dev] Possible promotional poster (with apologies to Matthias)

2012-02-18 Thread Neil Toronto
On 02/18/2012 09:35 AM, Robby Findler wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Neil Toronto wrote: Another angle: what aspects of Racket do we want to advertise? Language building. Definitely. I like Sam's idea on this one. I want a hi-res picture of Matthew, pointing at the viewer like in

Re: [racket-dev] Possible promotional poster (with apologies to Matthias)

2012-02-18 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > I'm lovin it (isn't that what they say now?) You restored my hair, better > than it ever was :-) For more inspiration of how to draw the young Matthias: http://cohesion.rice.edu/engineering/computerscience/news.cfm?doc_id=6293 . Scr

Re: [racket-dev] Possible promotional poster (with apologies to Matthias)

2012-02-18 Thread Eli Barzilay
Three hours ago, Neil Toronto wrote: > [...] >www.racket-lang.org Please make it just "racket-lang.org". -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _ Ra

[racket-dev] Build failures since 5.2

2012-02-18 Thread James McCoy
Hi all, Since 5.2, racket has been failing to build on some of Debian's less mainstream architectures where it had been building fine with 5.1.3. The failure scenario below is common among a few of the architectures (armel[0], s390[1], s390x[2]) [0]: https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pk

Re: [racket-dev] new logo

2012-02-18 Thread Neil Toronto
I've attached my entry into the "lambda + R" prototype series. I went for symmetry on the lambda body, mimicked the round part of the Times New Roman "R", and compromised as little as possible on the angle of the left leg. This is a very tricky logo idea, FWIW. The left-leg angle is always har

Re: [racket-dev] Possible promotional poster (with apologies to Matthias)

2012-02-18 Thread Neil Toronto
On 02/18/2012 01:16 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: Three hours ago, Neil Toronto wrote: [...] www.racket-lang.org Please make it just "racket-lang.org". Ah. That's where the logo goes, when we settle on one. You're a friggin' genius. Neil ⊥ _ Racket Developers

Re: [racket-dev] new logo

2012-02-18 Thread Eli Barzilay
An hour ago, Neil Toronto wrote: > I've attached my entry into the "lambda + R" prototype series. I > went for symmetry on the lambda body, mimicked the round part of the > Times New Roman "R", and compromised as little as possible on the > angle of the left leg. > > This is a very tricky logo ide

Re: [racket-dev] Possible promotional poster (with apologies to Matthias)

2012-02-18 Thread Eli Barzilay
An hour ago, Neil Toronto wrote: > On 02/18/2012 01:16 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > > Three hours ago, Neil Toronto wrote: > >> [...] > >> www.racket-lang.org > > > > Please make it just "racket-lang.org". > > Ah. That's where the logo goes, when we settle on one. > > You're a friggin' g

Re: [racket-dev] new logo

2012-02-18 Thread Neil Toronto
On 02/18/2012 08:49 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: An hour ago, Neil Toronto wrote: That's why after several attempts to connect the paren to the rest of the "R" I went back to Michael's original thing and left it disconnected, and instead used the pointy serifs that match the pointy tips of the paren,