Re: [racket-users] Re: Smalltalk (Was: Why is there a space in the path to the Racket application on MacOSX?)
Geoffrey Knauth wrote on 04/01/2018 11:53 PM: I don't see why there couldn't be a Racket Machine. People could live in it the way people live in Emacs and get so much done and have their ice cream too. BTW, if someone wants the novelty of a kind of mock-up of booting into a Racket Machine, you can rig up your own Debian Live distro to boot a stripped-down GNU/Linux that launches your Racket process. (I have done this before, which is why there's a scary Racket package for repartitioning your hard disk, "http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket/parted/;.) User experience-wise, you might wind up with an environment that builds upon DrRacket, to incorporate elements of the more dynamic environments of Lisp machines, Smalltalk, and Emacs. Of course, a Racket Machine might also eventually have an operating system kernel or hardware architecture that was designed for its needs. In the interim, Debian Live lets you pretend that you do. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[racket-users] Re: Smalltalk (Was: Why is there a space in the path to the Racket application on MacOSX?)
On Sunday, April 1, 2018 at 9:53:45 PM UTC-4, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > > A bonus of reading old Smalltalk-80 stuff is that you get exposed to a > bit of some of the best and most optimistic visionary thinking about > information technology, when people had grand ideas for how computers > could elevate everyone (spoilers: it wasn't about a couple billionaire > 'social' dotcom founders seizing power over everyone, and CS students > weren't thinking like startup MBAs). > Amen to that. For fun I'd love to see Alan Kay play with DrRacket, then pick his brain. I run into clumps of Smalltalk people in unexpected places, such as at SIGGRAPH. For your Smalltalk-in-Racket implementation idea, the key is how you start out the project. If it starts right, it can grow naturally. Smalltalk and the Lisp Machine had some similarities. I don't see why there couldn't be a Racket Machine. People could live in it the way people live in Emacs and get so much done and have their ice cream too. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
