Re: turtle’s outline on blue plaid as main image in initial window of DrRacket on 2020‐06‐11: an Easter egg and a curiosity (veering off topic for [racket-users])

2020-06-14 Thread 'Richard Cleis' via Racket Users
I work out here for a company that doesn’t provide that holiday, but at least I developed in DrRacket the whole day. :) RAC > On Jun 14, 2020, at 7:48 AM, Robby Findler wrote: > >  > I don't know that there is a direct connection except that some of us (maybe > just me?) love the place

Re: [racket-users] Pitching use of Racket at work?

2019-09-19 Thread 'Richard Cleis' via users-redirect
> On Sep 18, 2019, at 12:25 PM, Sage Gerard wrote: > > This question is more for private-sector programmers in firms using > well-adopted technologies: How many of you tried to get your team to try > Racket at work for smaller tasks? What was their reaction? Three of them use it because they

Re: [racket-users] Re: IO in racket is painful

2016-03-25 Thread Richard Cleis
"Lurking thresholds" are fun: I used pre-Racket to read files of numerical data, created by different agencies across the country. The code looked for something that looked like a date (out of about 10 formats), and moved on from there to read a few hundred lines of gradually changing groups

Re: [racket-users] (eqv? Racket-land Wonderland) -> #t

2016-02-14 Thread Richard Cleis
> So, at the end I just wonder how is it that such Wonderland is not > discovered by much more people? (My perspective is from working in the same place for 32 years) - To claim progress, most people want to make only minimum changes to their way of doing things. - To claim progress, most