[racket] thanks on behalf of a few thousand students

From: John Clements (clements at brinckerhoff.org)
Date: Thu Mar 7 12:09:11 EST 2013

On Mar 6, 2013, at 8:03 PM, Dan Grossman wrote:

> 
> Just some quick fan mail...
> 
> I know Racket has tremendous reach to students via HtDP, etc.  But I also used it for a course I'm currently teaching on Coursera for 2 of the 7 assignments, the 2nd of which was just due.  Overall, we handled a few thousand submissions for each assignment with basically no glitches.  (Okay, okay, we tripped across and confirmed one compiler bug, which we've reported.)  Much appreciated!  
> 
> And naturally I said nice things about Racket in the course.  (And naturally, any of you in my shoes would have done some things differently. :) )
> 
> Finally, as will surprise almost nobody, the installation instructions for SML N/J and Ruby 1.9 were about 6x longer and more error-prone.  Sigh.

So, are you responsible for the last two months of this graph?

from

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=Racket%2C%20&cmpt=q


> 
> --Dan
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