Re: [racket] Teach yourself Racket in Fixnum Days?

2012-01-09 Thread Giuseppe Paleologo
R vignettes are closer to the topical Racket tutorials (on web and system programming). I was wondering if there is an up to date introduction to the Racket language for readers with previous programming experience; better if concise. It seems that most available books employ Racket to introduce pr

Re: [racket] racketcon podcasts & proceedings?

2012-01-09 Thread Eric Tanter
Time for the monthly ping! -- Éric On Dec 19, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > Hi All, > > We apologize for the delay, and while we won't have the videos up in > time to be delivered to your stocking by Santa, we hope to have the > first of them up around the new year. > >> On M

Re: [racket] Racket Google Hits

2012-01-09 Thread Joe Marshall
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:09 AM, John Clements wrote: > Many people have better things to do than worry about our rank in the TIOBE > programming languages index. The `number of results' printed for a Google query is an extraordinarily poor approximation (it is not much better than a random numb

Re: [racket] Racket Google Hits

2012-01-09 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Oh John :-) On Jan 8, 2012, at 10:41 PM, John Clements wrote: > > On Jan 8, 2012, at 7:15 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > >> 7 hours ago, Neil Van Dyke wrote: >>> I should be ashamed that I just added the word "programming" to my >>> Racket page, just for the benefit of that site's flimsy methodolo

Re: [racket] Teach yourself Racket in Fixnum Days?

2012-01-09 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Something like Vignettes in R? -- Matthias On Jan 6, 2012, at 10:07 PM, Giuseppe Paleologo wrote: > My applications are mostly in Statistics/Data Analysis. Rather than dealing > with a single, massive data set, I often have many medium-sized ones. I find > myself applying in R or Python larg

Re: [racket] a question of style, and one of performance

2012-01-09 Thread Jordan Schatz
> Can you give an example of such a language? I'm curious. Unfortunately I forget which one, I recall that the reason given was that since the default value couldn't be determined at compile time the compiler was unable to optimize functions with such default arguments. Much of my work is in PHP,

Re: [racket] mime/multipart parsing

2012-01-09 Thread Jordan Schatz
> I'm not sure why the library tries to recognize subtypes at all. I > think it makes more sense to just include a symbol form of type as-is > in the result structure, since it will be difficult to keep up with all > registered types. I've pushed that change. Thanks! On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 12:17:

Re: [racket] Is there a tcl-expect like module in racket?

2012-01-09 Thread Eli Barzilay
20 minutes ago, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Not that I know of. I always handcraft instead. One example was > programmatically using a REPL of a statistics system from Racket. I > usually use "sync" and block reads into my own buffers, and then > doing the matching on the buffers, while keeping buffe

Re: [racket] Is there a tcl-expect like module in racket?

2012-01-09 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Not that I know of. I always handcraft instead. One example was programmatically using a REPL of a statistics system from Racket. I usually use "sync" and block reads into my own buffers, and then doing the matching on the buffers, while keeping buffer indexes for what's been read. If you'

[racket] Is there a tcl-expect like module in racket?

2012-01-09 Thread Kun Liang
Thanks! -- Kun Liang http://freearth.blog.chinaunix.net Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] Racket Google Hits

2012-01-09 Thread Sam Donow
It is somewhat dissapointing though that, at least by the "racket programming" standard, the language isn't even in the top 100 apparently; I guess all of this may help to some small degree. On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Eduardo Bellani wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1

Re: [racket] Racket Google Hits

2012-01-09 Thread Eduardo Bellani
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You mean that responding to the thread about racket programming with lots of racket programming text would increase the status of the racket programming page? There you go. On 01/09/2012 07:54 AM, pablo wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:41 AM, John C

Re: [racket] Racket Google Hits

2012-01-09 Thread pablo
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:41 AM, John Clements wrote: > > On Jan 8, 2012, at 7:15 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > >> 7 hours ago, Neil Van Dyke wrote: >>> I should be ashamed that I just added the word "programming" to my >>> Racket page, just for the benefit of that site's flimsy methodology. >> >> +1 >