[racket-dev] racket vs. scheme vs. clojure (as it appears to others)

AFAICT a lot of the appeal of Clojure is that it is lisp + jvm + java
libraries, and the boosters already know what that is. For racket-lang
there is a lot more to communicate. It's not a sensible comparison.

S.






On Thursday, May 5, 2011, Eli Barzilay  wrote:
> (FWIW, I don't have any strong issues with Java, but refering to "the
> best parts of Java" is asking to be made into a joke.)
>
>
> Yesterday, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
>> Justin is right other than the Java part.  Eli is right with the
>> amendment of -1 for the suggestion that Java has good parts worth
>> borrowing. (-:
>>
>> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Eli Barzilay  wrote:
>> > 20 minutes ago, Justin Zamora wrote:
>> >> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 3:20 AM, D Herring  wrote:
>> >> > You might emphasize that Racket is a "new language, borrowing the
>> >> > best parts of Scheme (and other languages?) and extending it with
>> >> > these features"...
>> >>
>> >> A sentence like that would be a good replacement for the awful,
>> >> "Racket is a programming language" currently on the front page of
>> >> racket-lang.org Perhaps something like "Racket is a new language
>> >> that borrows the best parts of Scheme, Java, and other languages and
>> >> extends them with advanced features such as contracts, types,
>> >> user-defined languages, a complete GUI framework and other modern
>> >> features."
>> >
>> > -1 for any mention of Java.
>
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