On Saturday, February 11, 2017 at 3:30:42 PM UTC+1, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > Racket should be removed from the list. > > > > http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/sk-teach-pl-post-linnaean/ > > Programming language ‘‘paradigms’’ are a moribund and tedious legacy of a > bygone age. > Modern language designers pay them no respect, so why do our courses > slavishly adhere > to them? This paper argues that we should abandon this method of teaching > languages, > offers an alternative, reconciles an important split in programming language > education, > and describes a textbook that explores these matters. > > (Shriram’s dissertation on linguistic reuse inspired Racket’s modular system > of languages.) > > > If you have time to edit the wikipage, please do so. Thanks — Matthias
As a person not invested in PL research and teaching let me state a layman's view. Whether we like it or not open access to wikipedia makes it an excellent tool for promotion - and that's how I see all the "supported paradigms" - just a marketing gimmick indicating language versatility. Thank you for the article linked - the arguments make perfect sense, but I am a bit doubtful if the battle can be won. Saying this, I like idealist (most of the time anyway) so if there will be no serious objections in the next few days - I will be your Sancho Panza and remove it as requested ;) Greg -- 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.
