Re: [racket-users] Programming paradigms

2017-02-21 Thread David Storrs
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:18 PM, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 9:46:53 PM UTC+5:30, David K. Storrs > wrote: > > I find PP to be a useful tool for thinking about programming, but not > terribly significant in everyday use -- my code will typically

Re: [racket-users] Programming paradigms

2017-02-20 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 9:46:53 PM UTC+5:30, David K. Storrs wrote: > I find PP to be a useful tool for thinking about programming, but not > terribly significant in everyday use -- my code will typically end up as a > mixture of functional, declarative, procedural, and OO.  The fact

Re: [racket-users] Programming paradigms supported by Racket (according to wikipedia)

2017-02-16 Thread Matthias Felleisen
The world of text books for undergraduate PL classes changed radically in the 1980s with the introduction of Kamin’s book and Friedman & Wand’s EOPL. One of the final bricks in this wall to fence of “paradigm” teaching is SK’s PLAI. Instead of paradigms, these books emphasized the idea of

Re: [racket-users] Programming paradigms supported by Racket (according to wikipedia)

2017-02-16 Thread Luis Sanjuán
On Sunday, February 12, 2017 at 11:19:06 PM UTC+1, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2017, at 4:55 PM, Greg Trzeciak wrote: > > > > On Sunday, February 12, 2017 at 10:35:45 PM UTC+1, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > >> Thanks. I assume you have seen my old web page with

Re: [racket-users] Programming paradigms supported by Racket (according to wikipedia)

2017-02-12 Thread Matthias Felleisen
> On Feb 12, 2017, at 4:55 PM, Greg Trzeciak wrote: > > On Sunday, February 12, 2017 at 10:35:45 PM UTC+1, Matthias Felleisen wrote: >> Thanks. I assume you have seen my old web page with Don Q as my image :-) > > Believe it or not... I haven't which makes the analogy

Re: [racket-users] Programming paradigms supported by Racket (according to wikipedia)

2017-02-12 Thread Greg Trzeciak
On Sunday, February 12, 2017 at 10:35:45 PM UTC+1, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > Thanks. I assume you have seen my old web page with Don Q as my image :-)  Believe it or not... I haven't which makes the analogy even more fitting =) To make sure I didn't simply have it in my subconsciousness I even

Re: [racket-users] Programming paradigms supported by Racket (according to wikipedia)

2017-02-12 Thread Matthias Felleisen
> On Feb 12, 2017, at 4:32 PM, Greg Trzeciak wrote: > > On Saturday, February 11, 2017 at 3:30:42 PM UTC+1, Matthias Felleisen wrote: >> Racket should be removed from the list. >> >> >> >> http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/sk-teach-pl-post-linnaean/

Re: [racket-users] Programming paradigms supported by Racket (according to wikipedia)

2017-02-12 Thread Greg Trzeciak
On Saturday, February 11, 2017 at 3:30:42 PM UTC+1, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > Racket should be removed from the list.  > > >   > http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/sk-teach-pl-post-linnaean/ > >  Programming language ‘‘paradigms’’ are a moribund and tedious legacy of a >

Re: [racket-users] Programming paradigms supported by Racket (according to wikipedia)

2017-02-11 Thread Matthias Felleisen
> On Feb 11, 2017, at 8:31 AM, Greg Trzeciak wrote: > > I have stumbled upon the following wiki page: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_multi-paradigm_programming_languages > > Supported paradigms: > --- > Language: Racket > Num­ber of

Re: [racket-users] Programming paradigms supported by Racket (according to wikipedia)

2017-02-11 Thread Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Le 11/02/2017 à 14:31, Greg Trzeciak a écrit : I have stumbled upon the following wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_multi-paradigm_programming_languages Supported paradigms: --- Language: Racket Num­ber of Para­digms: 6 ... According to the same