[I am sorry for replying again on this sub-thread, but your first statement makes me very sad and the second one points out a serious flaw in our web prose.]
On Mar 26, 2015, at 11:02 AM, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> wrote: >> A web site is an ad. > > As is a research paper. It's the audience that differs. I am sorry but you embrace modern CS departments too much, and there is push-back coming about. Don't bother me with papers that I can't reconstruct and accept after that as valid or invalid. An ad is totally different. >> It is for the programmer looking for a productive tool. As such, >> the site needs to clarify that >> >> -- Racket is an ordinary programming language >> (see sentence 1 in section 3) >> -- it brings something to the table that is an increment over others >> (full-spectrum) >> (see section 4 plus section 5) >> -- you can do truly unusual things with it (grow your language) >> (see section 3) > > I'd say it does (1) very well, (2) reasonably well, and (3) not at > all. If you know about (3) you can find the details, but even that > requires some effort. See Grow Your Language. Let us know what you think. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
