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I am not a fervent Lisper, but dropping the parentheses will take me away from the times I do go to Racket, and just go back to SBCL or Gambit or Chicken Scheme
by eggy 7y ago
I am not a fervent Lisper, but dropping the parentheses will take me away from the times I do go to Racket, and just go back to SBCL or Gambit or Chicken Scheme. The article admits it is to try and win more share of users, but that is not a good reason for a predominantly academic language. I would even go to Haskell, which avoids success at all costs ;)
- seisvelas 7y agoIronically, I think most of Racket's popularity is driven by its Lispiness. People want to get into this 'Lisp' stuff and everyone recommends Racket. I personally learned Racket because as a dumb teen Googled "how to become a hacker". The first result was Eric Raymond's article How To Become A Hacker, which recommended learning Lisp. I looked into Lisps and ran into the book How to Design Programs which recommended the IDE DrRacket.
- dTal 7y agoThey're not dropping anything. You will still be able to use the parentheses. This is essentially a proposal for an official alternate syntax.