Re: [racket] Math Guidance

2010-11-03 Thread Karl Winterling
You should feel comfortable reading and writing proofs of (relatively) simple propositions and understand basic concepts in logic and abstract algebra. Calculus may or may not help you. _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket

Re: [racket] Literate Programming and Scribble

2010-09-10 Thread Karl Winterling
On 9/9/2010 8:31 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: MathJax is the best solution I've seen so far -- but it's kind of cheating... "If we can't get broad support for renering math, we'll do it ourselves." This makes the result much less appealing as proper support -- like relying on js (probably means tha

Re: [racket] Literate Programming and Scribble

2010-09-09 Thread Karl Winterling
Eli Barzilay wrote: Using images sound like the usual fragile solution, so ideally there will be some better solution for both latex/pdf and html in the future. (But it's been more than a decade that math-in-a-browser is "just around the corner".) There's MathJax (http://www.mathjax.org) whic

Re: [racket] .rkt application type for download?

2010-09-01 Thread Karl Winterling
application/octet-stream _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users

Re: [racket] SMathML Support in Racket

2010-08-18 Thread Karl Winterling
Google lhs2TeX. _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users

Re: [racket] SMathML Support in Racket

2010-08-15 Thread Karl Winterling
I realize that I meant to say "Yes" because it is too much to hope. _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users

Re: [racket] SMathML Support in Racket

2010-08-15 Thread Karl Winterling
I happen to spend most of my time not programming or reading Racket documentation, so the answer to your question is "No." _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users

[racket] SMathML Support in Racket

2010-08-15 Thread Karl Winterling
if you so desire) with me in downtown Berkeley whenever you're in the area. If you come up with anything nicer then I'll set up a PayPal account, post some ads in the technical departments at my school, and we'll talk. -- Karl Winterling Skype: karl.winterling __

Re: [racket] Sending s-expr to repl

2010-06-24 Thread Karl Winterling
Copy the definition, paste it into the REPL, and press return. Otherwise subx: if (bac >= 0.15) exit(-1); else { drink_beer(); hit_head_with_brick(&SELF); goto subx; } On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Jordan Johnson wrote: > See >  http://blog.racket-lang.org/2009/03/drscheme-repl-isnt-lisp.

Re: [racket] Web Application Deployment

2010-06-22 Thread Karl Winterling
cket documentation and the help available on this email list, > there are professional Racket consultants available for outsourcing.  And, > to borrow a line from an Asimov bio, they grow more handsome with each year. > > Karl Winterling wrote at 06/22/2010 02:45 PM: >> >> It app

[racket] Web Application Deployment

2010-06-22 Thread Karl Winterling
It appears that you need a PLT Web server running on your site's host to deploy Web applications. Is it possible to deploy applications on shared hosting with Apache and something like CGI or FastCGI? _ For list-related administrative tasks: http:

Re: [racket] iPhone

2010-06-18 Thread Karl Winterling
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Jim Wise wrote: > > I think the only real confusion comes in when you look at the iPhone and > think of it as a general-purpose computer -- an environment where you > are used to downloading your own software.  A better comparison is to a > game console like a Nin

Re: [racket] iPhone (Was: [The Racket Blog] New comment on Racket.)

2010-06-18 Thread Karl Winterling
I know this is a bit off-topic, but I wanted to see if anybody knows of an iPad-like device that lets you install LaTeX and a PDF viewer that supports annotations. On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Karl Winterling wrote: > It's probably a mix of Apple's desire to have a co

Re: [racket] iPhone (Was: [The Racket Blog] New comment on Racket.)

2010-06-18 Thread Karl Winterling
It's probably a mix of Apple's desire to have a consistent user interface, control code distribution through the app store, prevent worthy competing API's (like, say, Java ME) from challenging Cocoa (which partially concerns money and partially consistent UI), and assure the FCC and carriers that n

Re: [racket] Off-topic: Scheme for JVM?

2010-06-11 Thread Karl Winterling
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: >> [...] and a scripting language for the App Engine. > > That would be news to me! > > Shriram > Hearsay is wonderful. _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-

Re: [racket] Off-topic: Scheme for JVM?

2010-06-11 Thread Karl Winterling
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Tim Johnson wrote: >  Very interesting! Could you elaborate on this Google >  investment in kawa? Or just post some links? >  thanks I think that Google uses Scheme as a configuration language for android and a scripting language for the App Engine. Kawa can com