[racket-users] Re: Performance. How to disable contract checks?

On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 12:47:18 -0400 Matthias Felleisen wrote: Hello Matthias, > Your mail calls for a philosophical answer. If this were Eiffel, you > would be correct. Recently I stumbled upon some application discovering it is written in Eiffel and I had become curious to investigate a bit

[racket-users] Re: slideshow for non-technical presentations

Asumu Takikawa writes: > One thing that's not portable is the fonts that you use. You will > probably have to install the same fonts or ensure that you only > use fonts that are available on both machines. Hmm…that might be problematic considering I do not have any clue which

[racket-users] Re: slideshow for non-technical presentations

Matthias Felleisen writes: >> is it safe to prepare it on Linux and ’execute’ under Linux >> by putting the whole environment on USB stick? > > > Yes. Ahh, I wanted to ask "to prepare under Linux" and "execute under Windows". :-( > (I have no experience w/ non-technical

[racket-users] slideshow for non-technical presentations

Hello, I’m (slowly) working through Realm of Racket being interested to use it for several programming projects. However, I’m also enthusiastic to embrac Slideshow library and wonder if someone can share his/her experiences about using it for non-technical presentations? In the past I was using

[racket-users] Re: quoting in posts to this email list

Eli Barzilay writes: > A sign that you're a dinosaur. Isn’t that nice these days? ;) Sincerely, Gour -- You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities,

[racket-users] installing scribble-mode for Spacemacs

Hello, I'd like to install Emacs mode for Scribble and according to the docs here are two methods, I did try the 2nd one which says: Evaluate the following Racket code to install the PLaneT package without modifying your Emacs setup. (require (planet neil/scribble-emacs)) since I use

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

Gustavo Massaccesi writes: > One advantage of JS is tht you can run it in every browser in every > computer in the word. Right, but, isn't it that Racket's GUI work in, at least, every major platform (Linux/BSD, Mac, Windows) using platform's native toolkit, which is quite

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

Richard Cleis writes: > - To claim progress, most people want to make only minimum changes to > their way of doing things. > > - To claim progress, most people do not want to make any change at all > to their way of *thinking* about things. So true - obstacle to the change!

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

"Jos Koot" writes: Hello Jos, > I am a Racket-using hobbyist. It surprises me that, according to the > observation, not many hobbyists are using Racket. Seeing so much proliferation of JS crap it looks like people are really going insane. :-) > I did programming in a lot

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

Neil Van Dyke writes: > Being non-mainstream for practitioners, Racket is most popular with > people who have the freedom to choose any tools they want, not forced > into a mainstream set of options. Most often this means individual > alpha techies, researchers, etc.

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

Hello, almost year ago I've become interested in Racket, but due to several reasons it did fall by the wayside. :-( Recently I decided to migrate most of my tool-chain to Emacs (editor, org-mode, Gnus...) and then, naturally, when considering about learning some Elisp, I've remembered my past