Re: [racket-dev] racket vs. scheme vs. clojure (as it appears to others)

2011-05-05 Thread Eli Barzilay
(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

Re: [racket-dev] composing contexts in Redex?

2011-05-05 Thread Stephen Chang
So I'm struggling with redex again and I cant figure out a way to utilize any of the previously mentioned tricks. I just included what I have below and I described what I'm trying to do. Hopefully someone will have some time to take a look? :) I have a context A, where the focus is in the body of

[racket-dev] racket vs. scheme vs. clojure (as it appears to others)

2011-05-05 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
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

Re: [racket-dev] composing contexts in Redex?

2011-05-05 Thread Casey Klein
2011/5/5 Stephen Chang stch...@ccs.neu.edu: So I'm struggling with redex again and I cant figure out a way to utilize any of the previously mentioned tricks. I just included what I have below and I described what I'm trying to do. Hopefully someone will have some time to take a look? :) I