[racket] [BULK] Fundamentals

From: Richard Cleis (rcleis at mac.com)
Date: Thu Oct 14 16:23:21 EDT 2010

Ok. But...  Carrions de Dwimmerlaik provide funding; they want answers  
to these questions.

RAC

On Oct 14, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Robby Findler  
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:

> 'Begone foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!'
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:56 PM, namekuseijin  
> <namekuseijin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> he would probably look at you funny and point you to Amazon.com and
>> some deep obscure Lord of the Rings passage.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Richard Cleis <rcleis at mac.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> How would he respond to questions that I must answer: "You use  
>>> Racket? For scripting or for programming? Is Racket interpreted or  
>>> compiled?"
>>>
>>> rac
>>>
>>> On Oct 14, 2010, at 12:51 PM, namekuseijin wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Richard Cleis <rcleis at mac.com>  
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> As someone who doesn't know better, I like your post.  Can you  
>>>>> explain 'script' ?
>>>>
>>>> as Larry Wall put it:
>>>> "Suppose you went back to Ada Lovelace and asked her the difference
>>>> between a script and a program. She'd probably look at you funny,  
>>>> then
>>>> say something like: Well, a script is what you give the actors,  
>>>> but a
>>>> program is what you give the audience. That Ada was one sharp  
>>>> lady..."
>>>>
>>>> source:
>>>> http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Larry_Wall#The_State_of_the_Onion_11
>>>
>>>
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