> On Jul 21, 2017, at 1:56 AM, Sorawee Porncharoenwase > <sorawee_porncharoenw...@brown.edu> wrote: > > Sorry for reviving an old thread. As someone who did a lot of programming > competition in the past, I can totally see why IO in Racket is difficult. As > mark.engelberg said, the goal is to solve as many problems as possible. After > the competition is over, it's over. No one is going to care about > maintainability or good coding practice if it makes coding slower.
Which is why I think programming competitions are a direct attempt to undermine computer science and computer-science education. Having said that, if you want to use Racket for competitions, you and Mark Engelberg should get together and produce a high-utility IO library. We can then include it in the distribution. -- 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.
