[plt-dev] Racket

Isnt a DrRacket a Quack?

Stephen

sorry.  ````i won't do that again,


On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Vincent St-Amour <stamourv at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:

> When the world teachpack was phased out in favor of universe, HTDP
> students were confused. Changing the name of the whole system will
> likely cause as much, if not more, confusion, especially given the
> number of paper copies of HTDP out there, all talking about
> DrScheme. Students will be looking for DrScheme on their school
> computers, and won't know what to do with that DrRacket stuff. Even
> worse, their school computers could still be running old versions of
> DrScheme, and they would have to (find out they have to, then) use
> DrRacket at home.
>
> Vincent
>
>
> At Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:18:05 -0700,
> Matthew Flatt wrote:
> >
> > We don't want to make much noise with this announcement --- not yet,
> > at least.
> >
> > The core developers of PLT Scheme have agreed to change the name of
> > the language. See
> >
> >    http://www.plt-racket.org/new-name.html
> >
> > You will soon see a new branch in the SVN repository and other activity
> > for the name change. We expect the new name to take effect in the May
> > release (earlier in the SVN trunk). So, now is the time to start
> > discussing and thinking about what the name change will mean for your
> > software and libraries.
> >
> > It's not yet time to write blog posts or advertise the name change to
> > the world at large. Although the change is no secret, a new name offers
> > a rare advertising opportunity, and we'd like to make as big a splash
> > as possible with the eventual release of Racket.
> >
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