Re: [racket-users] Best alternate editor/IDE for someone who gets overwhelmed by complexity

2016-11-27 Thread Vincent Manis
On 2016-11-26 04:54 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: The documentation site includes links to PDFs. You could print — Matthias For various reasons, I prefer reading PDFs when on my tablet. So what I did was to write a kludgy shell script that mungs up a copy of the index.html file that references

Re: [racket-users] Best alternate editor/IDE for someone who gets overwhelmed by complexity

2016-11-26 Thread Matthias Felleisen
The documentation site includes links to PDFs. You could print — Matthias > On Nov 26, 2016, at 3:22 PM, SR wrote: > > The "Program Contour" feature is another revelation! I appreciate, finally, > why those "pesky" many-line declarations of things like > ;;

RE: [racket-users] Best alternate editor/IDE for someone who gets overwhelmed by complexity

2016-11-26 Thread Jos Koot
, Jos -Original Message- From: racket-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:racket-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of SR Sent: sábado, 26 de noviembre de 2016 16:54 To: Racket Users Subject: [racket-users] Best alternate editor/IDE for someone who gets overwhelmed by complexity Hi, I

Re: [racket-users] Best alternate editor/IDE for someone who gets overwhelmed by complexity

2016-11-26 Thread Matthias Felleisen
As Matthew B wrote, but in general, I think you have hit the nail on the head — if you come from/are used to a world where the IDE governs your thinking. With Racket we try a different approach; we want the language to govern your thinking and we want the language to allow you to think directl

Re: [racket-users] Best alternate editor/IDE for someone who gets overwhelmed by complexity

2016-11-26 Thread Matthew Butterick
On Nov 26, 2016, at 7:54 AM, SR wrote: > I am hoping someone out there can recommend a strong editor / IDE which makes > it trivial to collapse blocks of code or otherwise make it a lot easier to > navigate through long racket programs FWIW, DrRacket does have a "Collapse S-expression" functio

[racket-users] Best alternate editor/IDE for someone who gets overwhelmed by complexity

2016-11-26 Thread SR
Hi, I've never been a great programmer although I've done a fair amount of programming back in the days of C, Pascal, etc. I think racket is the right language for me based on expressive power, etc. but I confess it currently seems like about the worst language for me in terms of "can't see the