It's difficult to say that with complete conviction. Racket, for example, aims to be very practical. However, most of the research in PL isn't necessarily on en

It's difficult to say that with complete conviction. Racket, for example, aims to be very practical. However, most of the research in PL isn't necessarily on entire new language systems as a whole, but maybe a specific feature or category. Disclaimer: I guess by association I'm affiliated with this group[1]. [1] http://www.racket-lang.org/people.html http://www.racket-lang.org/people.html