Welllllll that one might be cheating :)
On 06/12/2013 05:25 AM, Tim Brown wrote:
Task: Load and Use a Package from PLaneT
:-)
On 10/06/13 23:08, Sean Kanaley wrote:
What would be the best task to show off Racket's advantages intrinsic to
the language and less to library support? It would have to somehow
abuse
hygienic macros I suppose--some kind of task like embedding a DSL, so
what
would be a good one? Maybe something with graphics to show off
functional
composition of pictures--perhaps the task could be to recreate IRL
(imperative robot language)...the state machine with the robot from the
Haskell book The Haskell School of Expression. Other ideas are
welcome...
On 06/10/2013 04:17 PM, Daniel Prager wrote:
Sean wrote:
> Also, Racket is one short of Python in popularity. If
> someone could do two more we'll defeat those lazy Python
> programmers, probably with less work!
Also, you can add your new tasks, which opens up another strategy for
advancing the Racket ranking.
Guidelines on new task creation:
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code:Add_a_Task
I added my first last night
--http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Deming%27s_Funnel -- together with a
Racket
solution, shortly followed by a contributed Python approximation (so
the
Pythonistas aren't totally lazy!) while still in draft.
-- Dan
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