Re: [racket-dev] Added Sierpinski example to wikipedia page

2010-08-16 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Some minimal surgery done. On Aug 16, 2010, at 10:27 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Could someone official please fix the introduction of that Wikipedia page > when they get a chance? The text seems to have suffered some bit rot. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(programming_language) >

Re: [racket-dev] Added Sierpinski example to wikipedia page

2010-08-16 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Could someone official please fix the introduction of that Wikipedia page when they get a chance? The text seems to have suffered some bit rot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(programming_language) Racket (formerly called PLT Scheme) is a programming language based on Scheme, produced by

Re: [racket-dev] Added Sierpinski example to wikipedia page

2010-08-16 Thread Robby Findler
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:51 PM, John Clements wrote: > ...then I added the sierpinski example from the racket-lang front page.  I'm > hoping that whoever wrote this code will either not object, or change it. I wrote an early version of it and certainly don't object or plan to make changes. Rob

[racket-dev] Added Sierpinski example to wikipedia page

2010-08-16 Thread John Clements
I happened upon the Racket wikipedia page again, and yet again the "Hello World" section made me want to cry. So I deleted it, and replaced it with the straightforward version of racket's "Hello, World!" program, viz.: #lang racket "Hello, World!" ...then I added the sierpinski example from th

Re: [racket-dev] status of the new `racket/gui'

2010-08-16 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Matthew also made this work with the older GTK-related libraries on Debian Stable. So if you tried before and were thwarted, it works now. (Thanks, Matthew.) -- http://www.neilvandyke.org/ _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.

Re: [racket-dev] status of the new `racket/gui'

2010-08-16 Thread Matthew Flatt
The `racket/gui' re-implementation has improved over the past two weeks. It's still not ready for everyday use or even bug reports, but it's getting closer. The most visible difference is that controls and canvases refresh and resize more cleanly. The least visible difference is that a complete mem

Re: [racket-dev] Nit in Windows build files

2010-08-16 Thread Matthew Flatt
I changed the name in "libracket.vcproj". At Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:58:22 +1000, Paul Steckler wrote: > In last night's build, the Visual Studio solution file > src/worksp/racket/racket.sln contains the line: > > Project("{8BC9CEB8-8B4A-11D0-8D11-00A0C91BC942}") = "libracket", > "..\libracke

Re: [racket-dev] new release policy

2010-08-16 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Aug 12, Jay McCarthy wrote: > > [...] Of the additions I made, I believe that only seqn-cons, > seqn-rest, seqn-tail, seqn-append, seqn-map, seqn-filter, and > seqn-add-between will have the speed problem. Side note: I read these as "seq n this, seq n that, ..." -- at least to me, "seqn" works

Re: [racket-dev] new release policy

2010-08-16 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Aug 13, Noel Welsh wrote: > > I think this is incorrect. I read: > > - When we provide APIs we lock ourselves into them > - The proposed sequence API is slow and can't be sped up without > significant effort (cf worldwide shortage of Matthew-Flatt-hours) > - We shouldn't lock ourselves into

Re: [racket-dev] new release policy

2010-08-16 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Aug 12, Eli Barzilay wrote: > > ** The addition is *slow*. Very slow. I wrote a test program to sum >up the integers from 0 to 200 -- and I get these numbers (test >code attached below): I forgot the attachment. x.rkt Description: Binary data -- ((lambda (x) (x x))