On Nov 12, 2011, at 12:19 AM, Raoul Duke wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote: >> That's a topic for a different discussion thread, but... I'm guessing some >> factors that would affect this comparative assessment: >> >> (1) How much experience and skill one has with each. >> (2) What kind of work one is doing. >> (3) What preconceived notions one has about how such work should be done. > > probably true, i shouldn't discount it. > > (but it still probably needs ui rework. ;-)
That's an amazing statement. A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk to 60 researchers, who -- among other things -- devote their work to supporting DSLs and NONE of them are parenthetical people. During the Q&A part at the end, someone asked whether DrRacket supported refactoring methods such as renaming and whether it would support the same refactoring for DSLs. I suspected I knew the answer but didn't know for sure. So I opened DrRacket, typed in a Racket program, showed refactoring, turned it into a Typed program, and .. volia refactoring automatically worked. Nobody had done anything about it, the tools just 'commute' with the DSLs. Show me another eco system where that works. -- Matthias _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
