On Jul 3, 2014, at 8:52 AM, Brian Adkins <racketus...@lojic.com> wrote:
> Hi all: > > I've recently begun learning Racket. After making some progress through > various books & tutorials, I took a shot at porting a non-trivial program I > had written in Haskell to help choose a lunch place for a group of colleagues > based on personal rankings of restaurants and individual history of visiting > restaurants. > > The Haskell code was quite unpolished to begin with, so when you combine that > with my very limited Racket knowledge, the ported code has much potential for > improvement :) Both versions are in this gist: > > https://gist.github.com/lojic/d45437453ccc8bcba196 Hmm, looks pretty good to me… except for the missing purpose statements on `rankrestaurants`, `rankUser`, and `rank`… > > I'm mainly posting this because I thought the comparison was interesting, but > I'm also very open to any suggestions for improvement, pointers to good > sources of info, etc. I've already read Realm of Racket, and I'm working > through The Little Schemer, How to Design Programs & The Scheme Programming > Language concurrently with plans for SICP a little later. > > One of the things I've enjoyed with Haskell is its incredible concision; I > was surprised at how well Racket did with the port above, although I do miss > Haskell's list comprehensions and syntactic support for pattern matching. I'm > willing to give up some concision for uniformity of syntax and the benefit of > macros that I'm hoping to realize at some point. > > I'm leaning toward going to Strange Loop and RacketCon this year if I can > free up time on my schedule; it would be great to meet some folks in the > Racket community. Hope to see you there. John Clements > > Thanks, > Brian > > -- > Brian Adkins > Lojic Technologies, LLC > http://lojic.com/ > > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
