Thanks for the feedback. We will sent out a brief survey to people who signed up. The goal is to make RacketCon a good place for Racketeers to plot the futures of all languages.
-- Matthias On Oct 15, 2012, at 1:10 PM, Greg Hendershott wrote: > 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 ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
