Re: [racket-users] [PSA] Upcoming projects

2019-06-28 Thread Eric Griffis
> Why implement these projects in Algebraic Racket? Good question -- not so easy to answer cleanly. Here's a smattering. I created Algebraic Racket to make functional meta-programming in Racket more enjoyable. My talk will demonstrate what I mean by that and why it matters in practice. The packa

Re: [racket-users] [PSA] Upcoming projects

2019-06-27 Thread Daniel Prager
Hi Eric On Fri., 28 Jun. 2019, 16:15 Eric Griffis, wrote: On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 9:12 PM Daniel Prager wrote: [snip] > Quick question: Why Algebraic Racket? If I understand the question, you're asking what makes Algebraic Racket "algebraic?" It started as an attempt to implement algebraic

Re: [racket-users] [PSA] Upcoming projects

2019-06-27 Thread Eric Griffis
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 9:12 PM Daniel Prager wrote: > > Hi Eric > > They all sound great. > > I'm particularly interested in the first two, and was very impressed by the > Diagram project gallery, and it would be great to see in Racket. Cool! Thanks for the comments. > Quick question: Why Alge

Re: [racket-users] [PSA] Upcoming projects

2019-06-27 Thread Daniel Prager
Hi Eric They all sound great. I'm particularly interested in the first two, and was very impressed by the Diagram project gallery , and it would be great to see in Racket. Quick question: Why *Algebraic* Racket? Dan -- Y

[racket-users] [PSA] Upcoming projects

2019-06-27 Thread Eric Griffis
Hello everyone, Over the next few months, I will be breaking ground on three new projects. == A diagramming library == An Algebraic Racket port of Haskell's diagrams library: https://archives.haskell.org/projects.haskell.org/diagrams/ I love this design. It's like Pict, but the API is st