Re: [racket] Discussion of racket on HN

2015-03-18 Thread Neil Van Dyke
There are some semi-new media skills for reading this kind of online forum. Which skills an individual reader employs depends on their goal in reading the forum (e.g., seek out particular information you suspect might be there, skimming for anything that looks interesting/relevant, idle distra

Re: [racket] Discussion of racket on HN

2015-03-18 Thread Robby Findler
Some people have not really figured out yet that they are going to die. Let them enjoy that innocence. :) Robby On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > I just wasted 15 minutes scanning the posts ... Don't people have more to do > than entertain themselves with speculation

Re: [racket] Discussion of racket on HN

2015-03-18 Thread Matthias Felleisen
I just wasted 15 minutes scanning the posts ... Don't people have more to do than entertain themselves with speculations about Bourne's vs Linus's personality? Or to play Haskell troll? Or trying to figure out whether Racket is better than CL because it has call/cc? Perhaps they should use thei

Re: [racket] Discussion of racket on HN

2015-03-18 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Carmack is a legendary programmer, and has many fans. I expect this mention to bring us some more smart people, curious to try out Racket. Neil V. Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

[racket] Discussion of racket on HN

2015-03-18 Thread Sean Kemplay
For those that are interested- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220468 Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users