[racket-users] scribble housekeeping?

There are several things about the excellent scribble guide at http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/getting-started.html that appear not to have been edited since the pre-Butterick era. Since this is now year B3 or B4, it seems high time to edit them. Specifically, the documentation manages to

Re: [racket-users] Announcing Leibniz, a new language in the Racket universe

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:42:13AM +0200, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > On 10/04/17 01:21, 'John Clements' via Racket Users wrote: > > >I really enjoyed poking around in this a bit. One thing that I would really > >have appreciated, if it’s at all possible, would be a small motivating > >example;

Re: [racket-users] [Shameless self-promotion] Articles about programming-language theory for working programmers in Racket

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 12:47:53PM -0400, Leandro Facchinetti wrote: > Hi Matthias, > > I am replaying publicly to thank you for the kind words, they surely > motivate me to keep going! :) That's one of the things that Matthias is good at -- spotting what people are doing right and encouraging

Re: [racket-users] Readers' understanding of the intent of “Quick: An Introduction [...]” and the HtDP2e “Prologue: [...]”.

You are of course right that the term “exercise” doesn't appear where I thought it did, and I should have double-checked. The person reading the Prologue referred to these as exercises: “Before you read on, ponder the following changes to your program: [...] Better than pondering is doing.

Re: [racket-users] Readers' understanding of the intent of “Quick: An Introduction [...]” and the HtDP2e “Prologue: [...]”.

Hi, I'm new here, but I am interested in Racket and HtDP2 and thought I'd contribute to the discussion. I think it's important to recognize that a book is very powerful in that the author's message can be duplicated essentially for free but also very limited in that in-person, one-on-one

[racket-users] RaspberryPi IoT programming with Racket BSL

For those who may not know about this: Matthias Felleisen recently heard about a really cool piece of work by Daniel Brunner and Stephan Brunner on using Racket BSL to program Raspberry Pi systems. Here is a brief blog post that has a link to the paper:

Re: [racket-users] [Shameless self-promotion] Articles about programming-language theory for working programmers in Racket

Hi Matthias, I am replaying publicly to thank you for the kind words, they surely motivate me to keep going! :) -- Leandro Facchinetti https://www.leafac.com GPG: 0x5925D0683DF3D583 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users"

Re: [racket-users] Readers' understanding of the intent of “Quick: An Introduction [...]” and the HtDP2e “Prologue: [...]”.

To start with, thank you for pointing out hurdles for “beginners” or “people new to Racket.” We listen and we want to improve this material so that everyone can design programs (either Racket or BSL). Let me speak to HtDP/2e because I am responsible for it. I will let Matthew speak to Quick.

Re: [racket-users] [Shameless self-promotion] Articles about programming-language theory for working programmers in Racket

I am replying publicly to praise you and especially praise you for trying this out on our list. > On Apr 8, 2017, at 10:54 AM, Leandro Facchinetti wrote: > > > Where am I heading with this series? I want to explain my research >

Re: [racket-users] Announcing Leibniz, a new language in the Racket universe

Let me ask a few questions that may nudge you a bit: What is an example of a system you want to model? For instance: Do you want to be able to model simple linear motion? Uniform acceleration? Do you want to be able to model predator-prey? Or epidemic growth? Are these even in the realm of

[racket-users] Re: Algol

Dear Dupéron, Thanks for looking into the issue. I am running Racket 6.7. Algol 60 is an option in the Other Languages section in the Experimental Languages sub-section. I don't remember which version used to work. I may have raised this same question last year. I would guess

Re: [racket-users] Announcing Leibniz, a new language in the Racket universe

On 10/04/17 01:21, 'John Clements' via Racket Users wrote: I really enjoyed poking around in this a bit. One thing that I would really have appreciated, if it’s at all possible, would be a small motivating example; preferably in the readme of that repo. Is that a sensible request? It's