Re: [racket] Questions from a new user

2014-07-01 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Jun 28, 2014, at 8:15 PM, Steve Graham wrote: > I'd like to ask some questions as I go through the book. As you could tell, you are at the right place. People respond quickly and correctly. > Is the book appropriate for learning Scheme in addition to Racket? What % of > the book deals

Re: [racket] Questions from a new user

2014-06-29 Thread Laurent
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote: > Hi Hendrik, > > Here is a blog post from 2012 about Racket on Android: > http://www.wedesoft.de/racket-on-android.html This proves that it is possible to get it running on Android. > It mentions that Racket is slow to load, due to t

Re: [racket] Questions from a new user

2014-06-29 Thread jsgraha...@yahoo.com
Actually I was thinking of Ganbit-C Scheme myself.  Various indivivuals have ported the Gambit development system, 1 or more games and medical device apps to run on Android and/or iPhones. Personally i'd be just as happy using Racket on those platforms.  Is there a way to do so? Steve Sent fr

Re: [racket] Questions from a new user

2014-06-29 Thread Neil Van Dyke
In addition to various ways of running a Racket VM on Android/iOS/etc. devices, another way to use Racket in mobile device app development is to target HTML5 offline apps. This means dynamic HTML+CSS UI, offline application cache and updating, persistent local storage, etc. A client of mine h

Re: [racket] Questions from a new user

2014-06-29 Thread Jens Axel Søgaard
Hi Hendrik, Here is a blog post from 2012 about Racket on Android: http://www.wedesoft.de/racket-on-android.html This proves that it is possible to get it running on Android. It mentions that Racket is slow to load, due to the large runtime. The version used was 5.2 and in the mean time versi

Re: [racket] Questions from a new user

2014-06-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:10:17PM -0700, Steve Graham wrote: > I have been interested in the Lisp family of languages for a while.  My short > term reason for studying the book is to get a handle on Scheme for > programming on the Android platform. Has Racket been implemented on Android? I kno

Re: [racket] Questions from a new user

2014-06-28 Thread Steve Graham
I have been interested in the Lisp family of languages for a while.  My short term reason for studying the book is to get a handle on Scheme for programming on the Android platform. Steve Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/u

Re: [racket] Questions from a new user

2014-06-28 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Steve, welcome to Racket. Regarding your Scheme questions... Unless you have an unusual reason that you need to use some Scheme dialect, rather than Racket[*]... then I strongly suspect that you want to just learn Racket for now, without everyone getting confused, talking about the various dia

Re: [racket] Questions from a new user

2014-06-28 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:15:27 -0700 Steve Graham wrote: > Hello, all.  I just purchased Realm of Racket and am working my way > through it.  Although I've been programming for 30+ years, most of > that has been with procedural languages (MUMPS, FORTRAN and COBOL) on > character-based medical infor

[racket] Questions from a new user

2014-06-28 Thread Steve Graham
Hello, all.  I just purchased Realm of Racket and am working my way through it.  Although I've been programming for 30+ years, most of that has been with procedural languages (MUMPS, FORTRAN and COBOL) on character-based medical information systems (i.e. reports, EDI and utilities).  This is one