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Agree with "Racket is more principled..." Where I differ with you if that I'd say that Racket theorically provides more power, but the system is not tractable i

by pyb 4y ago

Agree with "Racket is more principled..." Where I differ with you if that I'd say that Racket theorically provides more power, but the system is not tractable in practice. I suspect all large Racket programs were written by people with PhD's from Northwestern. BTW, Racket's defmacro is only partially compatible with Common Lisp defmacro. It doesn't really work. I even seem to remember (? from long ago) that it's impossible to implement a genuine CL defmacro in Racket.

disconcision 4y ago
> all large Racket programs were written by people with PhD's from Northwestern not totally wrong but i did write this https://github.com/disconcision/fructure https://github.com/disconcision/fructure with ~2 years programming experience. implementation features some nice simple define-syntax-rule macros which i maybe never wouldve managed with defmacro