Somewhat tangentially adjunct to the original topic, "any interest in doing some cool racket project". I'm attempting to put together a toy map/reduce (actually more along the lines of the Scala Spark project) engine over Racket Places to see how it goes. If the toy works, combine with Toronto's mythical ; ) TRMath collection + a TRPlot, is an interesting amalgamation. While some may consider "yet another map/reduce framework" to be as useful to mankind as "yet another window manager" IMHO it still has a bit of panche. I say the world can always use one more.
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote: > Understood. Three points for the general person, although they might not > apply to you or everyone: > > * I think the fastest way to learn XMonad is to use their "guided-tour" > and "step-by-step" documents, and then just use those for a while, to see > how you like it and what changes you really want. Probably one's way of > working will change a bit. Then a lot of changes you might want to make > are already in the contrib library. There are a few things I wanted to > change initially, and I blogged about them, but they were pretty small, and > did not require a knowledge of Haskell. > > * Regarding REPL, Haskell people are almost as smart as Racket people, and > maybe even sometimes just slightly smarter than Racket people on a few > things. :) I think Haskell and XMonad together have the better development > tools than Sawfish, although it might not be as obvious as having a REPL > menu item or whatever Sawfish does. > > * The relative accessibility of Scheme and small Lisps is something that I > have milked before, in comparison to Haskell, and I plan to milk it again > in my vaporware Racket book. > > Neil V. > > Laurent wrote at 10/25/2012 12:31 PM: > > Yes I have, for a few days, after reading Jay's blog, but (too?) quickly >> abandoned. I learned a slight bit about Haskell, tried to make my custom >> file with basic stuff and failed. I believe I should take a full course on >> Haskell before using xmonad. On the other hand, I installed Sawfish, looked >> at the reference manual, and could immediately do everything I wanted to >> do. There are many bindings that you can use to control whatever you want >> about your windows. For example, I've always wanted a keybinding to send a >> window to my second monitor (not workspace, not viewport, but monitor head) >> while keeping size ratio. Did that in an hour or two with Sawfish (had to >> write my own function), have no clue how to do that in xmonad (but I admit >> I did not look very far). Plus it's got a repl. >> >> > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/**users <http://lists.racket-lang.org/users> >
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