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While I appreciate and respect Racket's willingness to experiment and innovate, I'm a bit puzzled by this. Tables are neat to read but pretty annoying to write

While I appreciate and respect Racket's willingness to experiment and innovate, I'm a bit puzzled by this. Tables are neat to read but pretty annoying to write, especially in ASCII form. It's true that code is read much more often than written, but still, I wonder how useful this really is.

exDM69 9y ago
> Tables are neat to read but pretty annoying to write, especially in ASCII form They sure are annoying to write in a text editor, but the article does mention built-in support for them in the Dr. Racket IDE/repl. Dr. Racket does seem like a very nice educational environment to learn some fundamentals of programming. In addition to text it can show images and tables, etc. I'm under the impression that it is used in some universities in conjunction with SICP or HTDP.
rrobukef 9y ago
Imagine you're using excel. Or something with HTML & javascript. `Click for a new match subtable...`