soegaard

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   by soegaard 11y ago

   Depends on the implementation. Support for TCO means that an unbounded amount of tail calls can be active at a time. A normal call pushes a frame to the stack. Most implementations don't push a frame for a tail call. However when debug
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   by soegaard 11y ago

   * macro/module system with phases ( https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/macromod.pdf ) * submodules ( http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/gpce13-f-color.pdf ) * Languag
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   by soegaard 11y ago

   https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/577877590070919168
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   by soegaard 11y ago

   > Should anyone have insights/opinions on why Racket/Scheme aren't more used, please feel free to share them with us! The Racket community has grown the last 5 years, so I would say that Racket is used more.
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   by soegaard 11y ago

   Note that Racket now have several distributions. The minimal distribution intended for servers is less than 10MB (then install the libraries you need). http://download.racket-lang.org/
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   by soegaard 11y ago

   There is a simple solution: Don't use continuation. Write your web-app in the same way you would in Python or similar. See "Low-level web programming in Racket + a wiki in 500 lines" by Matt Might: http://matt.migh
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   by soegaard 11y ago

   The community version of Arc is called Anarki. It runs on new versions of Racket. https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
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   by soegaard 11y ago

   Apropos Emacs: Have you seen racket-mode for Emacs? (Available through Melpa)
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   by soegaard 11y ago

   request is a struct with the field post-data/raw, so this implies that request-post-data/raw can access the field. http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/http.html?q=request#%...
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    by soegaard 11y ago

    There is an introduction video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I10qWoQEi5U&list=PLIGa-eWCss...
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    by soegaard 11y ago

    To be clear: The "my" in the title refers to Steve Ridout.
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    Readlang – My Bootstrapped Language Learning Web-App(steveridout.com)

    1 points by soegaard 11y ago|3 comments
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    by soegaard 11y ago

    Copy these files: https://github.com/soegaard/mathbook/blob/master/mathbook/ma... and https://github.com/soegaard/mathbook/blob/master/mathbook/de...
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    by soegaard 11y ago

    Experience says no. There are several reasons, but * macros are only used when functions doesn't make sense * there are documentation * most follow the conventions of the language
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    by soegaard 11y ago

    @OP Studying HtDP is a good choice for someone entering Computer Science. HtDP is written by experienced CS professors and will introduce you to many important CS topics.
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    by soegaard 11y ago

    From Peter Seibel's "Practical Common Lisp": DOLIST is similar to Perl's foreach or Python's for. Java added a similar kind of loop construct with the "enhanced" for loop in Java 1.5, as part of JSR-201. N
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    King of the Hill on Rosetta Code(blog.racket-lang.org)

    32 points by soegaard 11y ago|2 comments
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    Racket Workflow(greghendershott.com)

    1 points by soegaard 12y ago|0 comments
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    by soegaard 12y ago

    Both
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    by soegaard 12y ago

    If anyone is interested in seeing how the principles in the article can be used to implement a traditional language, I offer MiniPascal. https://github.com/soegaard/minipascal The reader (lexer and parser) turns the so
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    The DrScheme repl isn't the one in Emacs (2009)(blog.racket-lang.org)

    4 points by soegaard 12y ago|0 comments
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    by soegaard 12y ago

    Dan Liebgold (Naughty Dog) at RacketCon 2013. "Racket on the Playstation 3? It's Not What you Think!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSmqbnhHp1c
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    by soegaard 12y ago

    I wouldn't say "the Racket people" gave up - rather that one Racket user gave up. If I were to port scmutils to Racket, I'd probably start from the Guile port.
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    by soegaard 12y ago

    So did I. So why have append for lists, and string-append for strings? Well, Scheme implementors were early on (still are) interested in writing efficient compilers - that affects the naming choices.
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    by soegaard 12y ago

    Allow me to highjack the thread. If you happen to be an expert in Textmate/Sublime/Atom language grammars and know how to handle multiline comments, I am very interested in hearing about it. More details here: http://st
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    by soegaard 12y ago

    When you cook sous vide you buy bags made specifically for the purpose. Bags made of polyethylene or polypropylene are the most common. For more info see http://modernistcuisine.com/2013/03/is-it-safe-cook-plastic&
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    by soegaard 12y ago

    A few tips: 1) Turn off the background syntax checker (click the dot in the bottom right corner). 2) Turn off "Program contour" in the "View menu" if you happen to have it on. If that's not enough: 3) Use "Limi
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    by soegaard 12y ago

    Racket comes with support for SQLite (the index of Scribble is built with help from SQlite for example). That is, it is possible to make such a tabular data structure with a reasonable effort. It would be interesting to hear what kind of fe
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    by soegaard 12y ago

    I for one am a paying customer :-)
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    by soegaard 12y ago

    The defaults has changed in modern times (5 years ago?).