[racket-users] general mapping tools?

2019-09-06 Thread Josh Rubin
-based *markup language* designed to annotate and overlay visualizations on various two-dimensional, Web-based online maps or three-dimensional Earth browsers (such as Google Earth). Has anybody been down this road in Racket? -- Josh Rubin jlru...@gmail.com -- You received this message

Re: [racket-users] Listing All Programs

2019-09-05 Thread Josh Rubin
g in the search tree. It will not get stuck. -- Josh Rubin jlru...@gmail.com -- 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...@g

Re: [racket-users] Quadruple-precision floating-point support?

2019-08-23 Thread Josh Rubin
and must have exact results. https://www.mersenne.org/ Good luck with your project. I am interested in seeing the result! -- Josh Rubin jlru...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

[racket-users] See expanded code?

2019-08-16 Thread Josh Rubin
I always try to understand things from the bottom up. How can I see the expansion of things like  (match ...)? More generally, how do Racket developers look at the internal forms of programs? -- Josh Rubin jlru...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[racket-users] Re: Thinking in scheme / racket

2019-07-11 Thread Josh Rubin
On Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 8:09:04 AM UTC-4, Bob Heffernan wrote: > > Dear all, > > I recently wanted to count the number of primes in the sequences 2^n+3 > and 2^n-3 (and a few more besides) where n is a positive integer. > > Hi Bob. This has nothing to do with Racket, and you may already k

Re: [racket-users] anyone using single-flonums?

2019-05-30 Thread Josh Rubin
- cache effects dominate everything. Just for fun, try timing simple C programs that just read progressively larger blocks of consecutive memory locations. There are huge decreases in speed near the limits of each cache level. -- Josh Rubin jlru...@gmail.com Hi to all my friends at NSA --

[racket-users] Chez Scheme history

2019-05-23 Thread Josh Rubin
edu/%7Edyb/pubs/hocs.pdf I like its discussion of Scheme implementation issues. I also enjoyed reading about the author's evolution as a designer. -- Josh Rubin jlru...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group.

Re: [racket-users] Haskell

2019-05-15 Thread Josh Rubin
specific feature does Haskell offer that makes you select it for this purpose as opposed to a different language?  It's possible that some other language (e.g. Racket) offers that feature and also others. On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 11:23 AM Josh Rubin <mailto:jlru...@gmail.com>> wrote:

[racket-users] Haskell

2019-05-14 Thread Josh Rubin
It just occurred to me that Haskell could be a powerful way to manipulate programs in other languages (like Scheme or Racket). Unfortunately, I don't know Haskell. Has anybody been down this path? -- Josh Rubin jlru...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed t

Re: [racket-users] Re: Keeping my mind sharp

2019-05-11 Thread Josh Rubin
o relearn the programming environment - editing, debugging, and packaging. I want to know what is underneath the surface. As someone told me, I really should learn git. -- Josh Rubin jlru...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users&qu

[racket-users] Re: Keeping my mind sharp

2019-05-11 Thread Josh Rubin
On Saturday, May 11, 2019 at 10:15:56 AM UTC-4, Josh Rubin wrote: I apologize for replying to myself. They say "Hello World" is the hardest program, because you have to stumble so much. Without reading any documentation I put some plausible stuff in a text file. I now ha

[racket-users] Keeping my mind sharp

2019-05-11 Thread Josh Rubin
Some people in their 60's do crossword puzzles to keep their mind sharp. I want to return to compiler hacking. I have experience with the ideas and code from many old compilers - MIT MacLisp and Rabbit (the grandfather of all Schemes), David Betz's Xscheme (shout out!), Texas Instruments Scheme.