Indeed I would have likely never even known that section existed - and 
looking at it now I see that it is very dense reading material. I turns my 
mind to mush trying to interpret what's being said there. I also happen to 
be, by and large, a self-learning lone wolf type. I am a complete novice to 
programming but when it came to AutoIt I managed to figure out how to piece 
together a fairly complicated and large-ish program only using Google, 
typing in Autoit + whateverineededtoknowabout and it invariably led me to 
not only just the documentation but a community forum FULL of questions and 
answers from years of community involvement. Sadly, Racket has no such 
structure in place except this very secluded, small Google group and 
smattering of tuts about the web - hardly any of which actually focus in 
any depth upon GUI app creation to any real extent, seemingly more 
concerned with various game making and animation activities.

As an example take a look at what happens if I type this into Google for an 
AutoIt function:
https://www.google.com/search?q=autoit+get+window+size

I wind up with a list of forum entries that I can read for clues on what to 
do OR I can read the documentation along with all that and if you look at 
the documentation..
https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/WinGetClientSize.htm
..it not only gives me a more traditional breakdown of the function it then 
goes on to show me it in real world use/action. That's a powerful thing to 
getting new people and beginners in the door and using your language. I 
would actually be much happier with a true official forum. Nothing against 
Google, I guess, but it feels so spartan and limited compared to what it 
could be.

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