Re: [racket-users] hackernews

2018-12-29 Thread Philip McGrath
On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 1:48 PM Tomasz Rola wrote: > Where does Racket belong? I understand Racket community no longer > considers themselves as part of Scheme landscape, but I am unable to > say where I get this impression from. If I am wrong, then the first > thing for anybody willing to contri

Re: [racket-users] Communicating the purpose of Racket (was: hackernews)

2018-12-29 Thread Alexis King
> On Dec 29, 2018, at 21:32, Philip McGrath wrote: > >> Respectfully, I would also concentrate on Rackets web presence. If I was to >> google any of the popular languages, I would find the answer to these >> questions in spades, with real life applications, and examples. You can >> also comp

Re: [racket-users] Re: hackernews

2018-12-29 Thread Philip McGrath
On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 10:31 AM BD1 a wrote: > I may be out of place here as I am a total beginner to programing. > I think hearing from an absolute newcomer is very useful: ignorance is a non-renewable resource! Respectfully, I would also concentrate on Rackets web presence. If I was > to go

Re: [racket-users] Escaping strings for the shell

2018-12-29 Thread rain1
On 2018-12-29 19:08, David Storrs wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 11:34 PM Jack Rosenthal wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 at 23:09 -0500, David Storrs wrote: > I am using 'system' to offload some work onto wget and other > applications in a few one-off scripts. Is there an easy way to escape > a st

Re: [racket-users] Escaping strings for the shell

2018-12-29 Thread Neil Van Dyke
(system* "/usr/local/bin/wget" "http://google.com"; "-O /tmp/fooflaksdjdghk") The process wants "-O" here to be an argument by itself. Okay, it's transforming -O into -o. Let's try the long form: That happened because `wget` thought that you were still in the server authority host part

Re: [racket-users] Escaping strings for the shell

2018-12-29 Thread David Storrs
On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 11:34 PM Jack Rosenthal wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 at 23:09 -0500, David Storrs wrote: > > I am using 'system' to offload some work onto wget and other > > applications in a few one-off scripts. Is there an easy way to escape > > a string so it's suitable for usage in

Re: [racket-users] hackernews

2018-12-29 Thread Jens Axel Søgaard
Den lør. 29. dec. 2018 kl. 19.48 skrev Tomasz Rola : > and last but not least, > > http://scheme.dk/planet/ > http://planet.lisp.org/ > > Apropos - if you want your blog on Planet Scheme, send me a mail. /Jens Axel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R

Re: [racket-users] hackernews

2018-12-29 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 09:51:17AM -0500, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Stephen De Gabrielle wrote on 12/26/18 7:40 AM: > >How did other languages grow their audience? e.g. Ruby-on-Rails, > >Perl, Python, PHP, C++, Rust ? > > All of those had merits, were right place and at right time, and > (except Rust

Re: [racket-users] typed racket backend/ir & gpu computing

2018-12-29 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Thank you, Sam and Matthias.  I'll have to come back to that project later, but this all looks useful. -- 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-us

[racket-users] Re: hackernews

2018-12-29 Thread BD1 a
I may be out of place here as I am a total beginner to programing. In a matter of fact, I just pick up HTDP from Amazon to teach myself programing. Respectfully, IMHO if you want to increase the popularity of Racket. You can’t just place racket as another me too language like python, etc.