Re: [racket] Racket Google Hits

2012-01-10 Thread Sam Phillips
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:11, John Clements wrote: > Related note: there's a new book out about Racket! > > Uh, more or less > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1244213063/ref=cm_cr_mts_prod_img [somewhat OT] GAH! "Books" like this suck. My wife was looking for a copy of an out of print

Re: [racket] Racket Google Hits

2012-01-10 Thread John Clements
Related note: there's a new book out about Racket! Uh, more or less http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1244213063/ref=cm_cr_mts_prod_img John smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] Racket Google Hits

2012-01-10 Thread Miloslav.Raus
acket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Joe Marshall Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:27 AM To: John Clements Cc: Racket-users Users Subject: Re: [racket] Racket Google Hits On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:09 AM, John Clements wrote: > Many people have better things to do than worry about our rank in t

Re: [racket] Racket Google Hits

2012-01-09 Thread Joe Marshall
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:09 AM, John Clements wrote: > Many people have better things to do than worry about our rank in the TIOBE > programming languages index. The `number of results' printed for a Google query is an extraordinarily poor approximation (it is not much better than a random numb

Re: [racket] Racket Google Hits

2012-01-09 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Oh John :-) On Jan 8, 2012, at 10:41 PM, John Clements wrote: > > On Jan 8, 2012, at 7:15 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > >> 7 hours ago, Neil Van Dyke wrote: >>> I should be ashamed that I just added the word "programming" to my >>> Racket page, just for the benefit of that site's flimsy methodolo

Re: [racket] Racket Google Hits

2012-01-09 Thread Sam Donow
It is somewhat dissapointing though that, at least by the "racket programming" standard, the language isn't even in the top 100 apparently; I guess all of this may help to some small degree. On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Eduardo Bellani wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1

Re: [racket] Racket Google Hits

2012-01-09 Thread Eduardo Bellani
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You mean that responding to the thread about racket programming with lots of racket programming text would increase the status of the racket programming page? There you go. On 01/09/2012 07:54 AM, pablo wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:41 AM, John C

Re: [racket] Racket Google Hits

2012-01-09 Thread pablo
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:41 AM, John Clements wrote: > > On Jan 8, 2012, at 7:15 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > >> 7 hours ago, Neil Van Dyke wrote: >>> I should be ashamed that I just added the word "programming" to my >>> Racket page, just for the benefit of that site's flimsy methodology. >> >> +1 >

Re: [racket] Racket Google Hits

2012-01-08 Thread Eli Barzilay
7 hours ago, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > I should be ashamed that I just added the word "programming" to my > Racket page, just for the benefit of that site's flimsy methodology. +1 -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/

Re: [racket] Racket Google Hits

2012-01-08 Thread Neil Van Dyke
I should be ashamed that I just added the word "programming" to my Racket page, just for the benefit of that site's flimsy methodology. -- http://www.neilvandyke.org/ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

[racket] Racket Google Hits

2012-01-08 Thread John Clements
Many people have better things to do than worry about our rank in the TIOBE programming languages index. For who care, then: we currently have "About 3,180 results (0.17 seconds)" for +"Racket Programming" on Google. 50K puts us in the top 50, something like 15-20K puts us in the top 100. John