Re: [racket-users] Intro and projects inquiry

Eric Griffis wrote on 10/11/2017 07:44 PM: On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 2:58 PM Neil Van Dyke > wrote: * Being there soon with a Web Assembly and HTML5 plus server full-stack story, in case developers respond favorably to that. Web back-ends are my wheelhou

Re: [racket-users] Intro and projects inquiry

> > Web back-ends are my wheelhouse. It sure would make my professional life > easier... Not gonna lie, this isn't something I'd look forward to banging > out alone. > I've been looking into web stuff for Racket quite a bit, specifically web microservices. Shoot me an email if you're intereste

[racket-users] Re: Thank you all for letting me speak

Really enjoyed your presentation David, Thankyou! Charles On Sunday, October 8, 2017 at 3:26:12 PM UTC-4, David K. Storrs wrote: > > I'd like to thank the organizers of (seventh racketcon) for allowing > me to speak. I would also like to thank the kind people who came up > to me afterwards and

Re: [racket-users] Intro and projects inquiry

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 2:58 PM Neil Van Dyke wrote: > > * Being there soon with a Web Assembly and HTML5 plus server full-stack > story, in case developers respond favorably to that. > Web back-ends are my wheelhouse. It sure would make my professional life easier... Not gonna lie, this isn't s

Re: [racket-users] racket/match a dictionary

> On Oct 11, 2017, at 2:56 PM, George Neuner wrote: > > Hmm. For completeness? I'm having trouble imaging why you'd want to > match a literal hash table. Or boxes. The other options make more > sense. Oh well. Imagine you’re parsing some JSON. You could parse the JSON into Racket data stru

Re: [racket-users] Intro and projects inquiry

Great topic! Providing examples and tutorials around data analysis and visualisation in Racket (and filling gaps and simplifying) gets my vote. Another area that might be interesting is generating data-driven web-sites: e.g. presenting questionnaires and quizzes. I recently did a bit of consulti

Re: [racket-users] Intro and projects inquiry

Welcome, Eric. That "Intro Projects" github wiki page doesn't really distinguish between "here's a very beginner exercise for learning experience", "here's something that might be fun for you to do, and maybe someone else will use it someday", and "doing this would likely advance Racket signi

[racket-users] Re: racket/match a dictionary

On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 11:19:36 -0700, Alexis King wrote: >> On Oct 11, 2017, at 11:10 AM, George Neuner >> wrote: >> >> My (maybe wrong) reading of the docs suggests that to match a hash >> table, the table must be defined inline in the match clause. > >This isn’t really accurate. The hash-table

Re: [racket-users] Intro and projects inquiry

Thanks for the quick reply. My goal is to make Racket more relevant for general engineering and application development. For example, I asked my scientist brother why he's using Python instead of Racket on his next project. His response: "but would I have to write my own routines for calculating

Re: [racket-users] Intro and projects inquiry

Eric, I don’t mean to inadvertently kill any conversations, but I wanted to point out that there is an existing list of Racket projects on the Racket GitHub wiki: https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Intro-Projects It hasn’t seen an update in a while, so some of those may be solved or have o

[racket-users] Intro and projects inquiry

Hello, My name is Eric and I love Racket. I am 39 years old and have been writing software for 30 years. I studied metaprogramming and taught programming languages as a grad student. My sole academic publication is on semantics and provenance for distributed data science tools. These days, I t

[racket-users] FFI examples passing std c++ vectors?

Hi, Wondering if there are any examples of passing std c++ vectors of numeric data types through the foreign function library? I've just been using pointers to the array representation and wondered if there were a more elegant way. Charles -- You received this message because you are subscr

Re: [racket-users] racket/match a dictionary

> On Oct 11, 2017, at 11:10 AM, George Neuner > wrote: > > My (maybe wrong) reading of the docs suggests that to match a hash > table, the table must be defined inline in the match clause. This isn’t really accurate. The hash-table match pattern matches a hash table itself, but it sounds like yo

[racket-users] racket/match a dictionary

Hi all, I trying to match a dictionary of terms against free form input. Many of the dictionary entries have aliases, so I'm using a custom hash table that matcheskeys by list membership. My (maybe wrong) reading of the docs suggests that to match a hash table, the table must be defined inline i