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by dzpower 7y ago
This very site — Hacker News — runs on Arc (Paul Graham's Lisp) which is implemented in Racket. Beating the averages: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html Racket web frameworks: https://github.com/av
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by dzpower 7y ago
The ClojureScript example is great. Clojure and by extension ClojureScript has a lot of tasteful and pragmatic design decisions, e.g. the use of the threading form and implicit lambda illustrated with the "+ 2"). By contrast Racke
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by dzpower 7y ago
I feel similarly to Gene Kim about Racket. Here's a comparison ... Gene Kim's Clojure example: ; input is JSON string: "{foo: 2}" (defn xform [s] (-> (js/JSON.parse s) js->clj (updat
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by dzpower 8y ago
It does sound like you were expecting a full Lisp and instead were greeted with one of the Beginner Languages, intended to teach first time programmers in a very structured way. See https://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket&#x2F
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by dzpower 9y ago
On a similar theme, what began as a weekend hack to help my wife design a patchwork quilt based on an image of Groucho Marx ended up as https://www.youpatch.com . In this case, the aggregation algorithm not only creates rectangul
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by dzpower 10y ago
For self-guided study, HTDP (How to Design Programs) is more accessible than SICP. https://www.amazon.com/How-Design-Programs-Introduction-Prog...
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by dzpower 11y ago
I got a fair way through SICP using DrScheme (now DrRacket) a few years ago without any special compatibility modes, and found the set-up to be pretty great. Now there's better compatibility thanks to #lang planet neil/sicp http:
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by dzpower 11y ago
Racket (a Scheme descendant) might be a good fit. It has teaching languages, which are simplified, and a nice IDE (DrRacket), and books (HTDP/2e (free online), Realm of Racket, etc.) Close match to the Python above: (apply + (range 1 1
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by dzpower 12y ago
My craft + tech startup www.youpatch.com uses Racket for the clever bits: image-processing, pdf generation, and I find it's great for prototyping and R&D. Here's my talk wide-ranging talk about it (video and slides) http:&#x2