Re: [racket] Off topic: A curriculum (books, papers, essays) for how to design and implement compilers and interpreters?

2011-09-18 Thread William Turtle
> Hi, > > If you could compose the perfect course of reading (books, papers, > essays) for a student to follow to learn how to design and implement > compilers and interpreters what would it look like? Some students at Brown did a group independent study on compilers using ML last spring. Their s

Re: [racket] Errors trying to compile Racket 5.1.1 on Linux (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2011-08-01 Thread William Turtle
After you type `../configure' at the command-prompt, make sure that when you type `echo $?' at the prompt, it prints 0, indicating a successful configuration. After that, could you type `ls' and tell me what it says? Bill T. On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 03:07:39PM -0400, Keith Frost wrote: > ### I do:

Re: [racket] Errors trying to compile Racket 5.1.1 on Linux (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2011-08-01 Thread William Turtle
When you go to racket-lang.org/download/, which platform are you downloading for? I've been able to build using the Unix source (racket-5.1.1-src-unix.tgz) on your same distribution, Ubuntu 10.04. I'm using GNU Make 3.81. Bill T. _ For list-relate

Re: [racket] Errors trying to compile Racket 5.1.1 on Linux (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2011-08-02 Thread William Turtle
Is this your own personal machine, or are you on a network? What does `uname -r' say? Bill T. _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users

Re: [racket] Wikipedia article improvements

2011-08-16 Thread William Turtle
I've voiced my opinion on the subject and briefly explained the languages mentioned. This `RHaworth' fellow seems like a bit of a blowhard. His user page contains a (broken) link to his webpage which states that he is "still very much a MsDos guy." That tells me all /I/ need to know (not sure about