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Not a big company, but Northeastern University's CS department uses it in their intro course to computer programming. The staff there is all about PL research a
by jparishy 14y ago
Not a big company, but Northeastern University's CS department uses it in their intro course to computer programming. The staff there is all about PL research and I believe they use it pretty extensively in that regard.
I spent a semester there and the staff are hardcore into it. I learnt a lot from Olin Shivers (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/ http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/) and he used Racket extensively.
- colanderman 14y agoThat's largely due to the presence of Matthias Felleisen, who (AFAIK) spearheaded Racket.
- carterschonwald 14y agoUnderstatement. A good fraction of the pl dudes there work on racket, and they have One of the largest active pl groups in the us if not the planet
- tbenst 14y agoBrown University's accelerated intro CS class only uses Racket (http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/csci0190/2011/ http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/csci0190/2011/). Beautiful language. Everything in the language, including basic core functions, can be built only using lambda