@Matthias Wow neat stuff!! I haven't read the papers yet but I definitely will.
@Emmanuel (and anybody) Your comments make me realize I have a lot of questions still. About how Racket is used in these courses, how old the students are, whether/if the pong stuff I've done is *really/truly* likely to find use in them, whether there's consensus amoung Racket(eers? :) that the Moby/Whalesong stuff is important to the future of Racket (both in the browser and with phonegap to address smartphones and tablets), whether a follow up to Realms of Racket has ever been discussed (I'd thought my Pong game might be a natural fit for that), what's up with Pyret am I right that is some of the Racket people but it looks like it's not implemented as a Racket language on top of Moby/Whalesong (which disappoints me if so that feels against the Racket vision as I thought I understood it). In other words, I have so many questions I can be annoying. :) Do you guys do like IRC chats maybe that's a better venue than my too-lengthy-for-some (I've been told by various people in the past) emails? :) Darren On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > On Jan 19, 2015, at 5:36 PM, Darren Cruse <darren.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I wonder if others have thought this way too? Or if Racket maybe has > something similar to this idea already? (I'd stumbled briefly on "Places" > was that like this I wonder?) > > > > > For the past few years, we have explored scaling up the universe-based > from middle school to DNS proxy servers and such things. And we have > managed to do so. At this moment there are two prototype languages -- > Marketplace and Minimart -- that support this style of programming at scale: > > -- it supports an actor-oriented programming style, though functionally > -- it comes with a message bus for pub/sub exchanges > -- the bus notices appearances and disappearances of actors > -- and entire collections of actors and their bus can appear as a single > actor in another collection. > > For more technical information, see > http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/#esop14-gjthf (which is a conference > publication) and follow the link to supplemental information. Marketplace > and Minimart are of course available as packages. > > Warning: both are prototypes and will evolve (probably into another > language). > > -- Matthias > >
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