> Pyret is the result of decades of research in computer science education, helmed by Shriram Krishnamurthi, who was one of the original members of the Racket p

> Pyret is the result of decades of research in computer science education, helmed by Shriram Krishnamurthi, who was one of the original members of the Racket project (itself a language designed for CS education in the '90s, a descendant of Scheme with kebab case and prefix notation). The full list of authors of Pyret is lengthy, but includes a number of well-established researchers in the PL and CSed communities. On one hand, this historical context is relevant. Thanks for sharing it. On the other hand, when this section is taken in context with with the following sentence... > Knowing who they are, I would happily assume that they spent plenty of time debating this exact issue of mixing kebab case with infix subtraction, and either decided the benefits were worth the cost or else decided that the cost was practically nonexistent. ...it looks the fallacy of appealing to authority. Many people like to debate the ideas and tradeoffs, not the credentials of people involved.