[racket-users] Re: Alternatives to DrRacket

I use Emacs because org-mode provides Babel and Babel lets me program in a literate style. In Emacs I can write literate code irrespective of language and I enjoy literate programming more than illiterate/unlitterate/conventional programming by a wide margin. Emacs org-mode lets me convert my

[racket-users] Community or Junior Colleges using Racket for Introductory or Other Courses

My child is a High School junior and has some interest (and some healthy disinterest) in pursuing computer science/engineering/programming/etc. As a Lisphead and in the interest of presenting a diversity of options if it winds up being computer etcetera, I am curious if there are an

[racket-users] Re: (number->string -nan.0) == "+nan.0" ?

The question reminded me of a passage in Plauger's *The Standard C Library* (1992): "The library [math.h] doesn't try to distinguish +0 from -0. IEEE 754 worries quite a bit about this distinction. All the architectures I mentioned above can represent both flavors of zero. But I have

[racket-users] Re: The Birth and Death of Units

To me, one of the redeeming qualities of units in Racket is that they make "the tent" bigger. Modules may usually be the right way in Racket, but the grace of Racket is that modules are not "The one true way" because the Racket community tends to eschew the OTW concept when it comes to computer