On Sunday, July 14, 2019 at 10:30:04 PM UTC-4, Matthew Flatt wrote:
At RacketCon today, after summarizing the state of work on Racket CS, I > recommended that we next explore the possibly of changing to an > infix-oriented syntax in "Racket2". > I realize that Racket2 is the name of the project, but I think it's very important that the *language* of the project gets its own unique name. Otherwise outsiders will see it as the successor, the important one, the one they should use by default, because they will think Racket1 (which will quickly become the human-oriented name of the existing language) has become obsolete. Larry Wall just changed the name of Perl 6 to Raku, and this is a Good Thing, because it deflects the "When are you going to replace Perl 5?" question. John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. --Bilbo -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/2f002c9e-61f2-4fd4-8014-0cd3d4e61853%40googlegroups.com.
