Well, as I said, I'm pretty new to Racket, but so far there are two main things that I think make it pretty unique: first one is extensibility, which is very well covered in the article now. The second one (always IMHO) is that, a part from having a solid theoretical basis, it is very practical (pragmatic?). It is not only a beautiful language: it is a language you can get your stuff done, quickly and reliably.
As an example: it may not be one of Racket's most advanced features, but the ability to generate standalone executables for different platforms may help to sell it a bit. For what I've seen, this has traditionally been both a common request and a pain to get it right in other dynamic languages. In Racket it just works. Maybe these practical aspects could be covered in subsections like Racket for systems programming, Racket for the web, Racket as a tool for learning to program... etc... with examples of the kind "look what you can do in just ?? lines of Racket... As for adding more examples in general, I think the middle section in racket-lang.org front page is very good: they cover a wide range of potential interested users, from the scripting guys to more theoretical stuff... maybe some of them could be copied with the help text into the article? I'm not sure a wikipedia reader will take the time to click again and again to browse them from the main page. Maybe a section on specific libraries or languages would be desirable, too, since some of them look quite impressive... Again, I'm just learning, but for what I've read so far, I think the web server is a kind of killer app... partial serializable continuations... how cool is that? Furthermore, web programming has become a kind of niche for non-mainstream languages, so curious web programmers may be among your potential readers... As for the links section... maybe I would also add a section on applications and companies using Racket in production environments... As far as I know, there's - Arc was built on top of racket... and it runs Hacker News http://news.ycombinator.com/ - The racket documentation - The people at http://untyped.com/ Dunno... what do you think? Do you expect for people to go and directly edit the wikipedia article or would you rather do it yourself... also, do you expect the discussion on the article to take place here or over wikipedia? Well, remember it's just the point of view of a beginner... Cheers Asumu! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
