[plt-dev] renaming programs in the distribution

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 21 09:23:32 EDT 2010

At Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:50:49 -0400, Carl Eastlund wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> > The name `racket-tool' is too long for me, [...]
> 
> We could always go with the long-standing tradition of <lang>c for
> compilers and call it racketc.

I don't think it acts enough like a `<lang>c'. For example, if you give
it a filename, `racket-tool' will complain that the filename isn't a
command. Also, most of its jobs will not be to compile.



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