the ultimate answer is 42. Now you just need the proper question... here's another take: java is JIT-compiled too. It powers a very large industry. The difference to Racket is just a few million dollars worth of hype, man-power and a (largely) static verbose type-system: this provides a tad better oportunities for the compiler to pin down optimizations.
so, you wonder if you should take Racket as a lowly interpreted scripting language or as a noble compiled programming language? I have no way to answer you, but here are a few facts for you to ponder and make your decision: Amazon.com was originally written in Perl (later at least mostly rewritten as C++) Twitter.com was originally written in Ruby (later rewritten as Scala running on JVM) Reddit.com was originally written in Common Lisp (later rewritten in Python) Slashdor.org was originally written in Perl. Facebook.com is written in PHP. these are some heavy-traffic websites. If a bytecode-interpreted "scripting" language can do some "real programming", then certainly a JIT-compiled language can more than handle a smaller website or a single-user desktop app. On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Richard Cleis <rcl...@mac.com> wrote: > Ok. But... Carrions de Dwimmerlaik provide funding; they want answers to > these questions. > > RAC > > On Oct 14, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> > wrote: > >> 'Begone foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!' >> >> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:56 PM, namekuseijin <namekusei...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> he would probably look at you funny and point you to Amazon.com and >>> some deep obscure Lord of the Rings passage. >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Richard Cleis <rcl...@mac.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> How would he respond to questions that I must answer: "You use Racket? >>>> For scripting or for programming? Is Racket interpreted or compiled?" _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
