I think it's kind of sad that most of the comments in this thread are about other languages than Racket and only barely touch on the articles points (mostly the

I think it's kind of sad that most of the comments in this thread are about other languages than Racket and only barely touch on the articles points (mostly the stuff you don't need to actually try the language (or any lisp) to comment on). I think it says a lot about what the crowd on HN is really all about.