I'd also like to thank everyone who helped organize and present it. It was a really great experience. To touch on just a few of the things I learned (with apologies to anyone or anything I'm forgetting right now):
- Sam has achieved the platonic ideal of typed/racket error messages; it is simply not possible to improve them. - Eli can show me how to organize something using macros and at-exps three different ways simultaneously. (It would be ten ways if he weren't slowing down for my sake). - Matthew can write sophisticated programs on the fly -- not merely in Racket, but directly in JIT bytecode. - Joe showed it's possible to do "crowdsourcecoding" on a scale I hadn't imagined possible. - If Danny Yoo gets any more prolific, his LOC will exceed the number of atoms in our solar system. - Although I already knew that every problem can be solved by a layer of indirection, Ryan showed it can also be solved by another layer of ellipses. p.s. I also learned that my usual mid-afternoon brainpower plunge isn't offset by a hackathon environment; in fact the opposite. I bit off more than I could finish yesterday. Although that's a hackathon fail for me, I'm looking forward to getting the Google API Discovery stuff from https://github.com/greghendershott/gapi to a useful PLaneT form within the next couple days. Thanks again to Eli for all of his help showing me a better approach. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
