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

From: Stephen De Gabrielle (stephen.degabrielle at acm.org)
Date: Mon May 9 07:56:55 EDT 2011

Hi,

can the text on the home page be changed from


> Racket is a programming language


to


> "Racket is the coolest programming language on earth.
> Spend a bit of time with it, and your programs will
> grow more beautiful in front of your eyes every day
> of your life." - M.F.
>

Thanks,

Stephen


On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:

> 6 hours ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> > Right now, we're already using JS to decide which of the 3 initial
> > code snippets to display.
>
> We're using it for more -- to flip through the examples.  Most of
> these browsers won't even use the CSS so things that should be hidden
> are not.  So the change I did makes things better in the fact that the
> display shows something sensible rather than the mess that it showed
> before -- it now shows each example with its explanation rather than
> all of the examples and then all of the explanations.
>
>
> > As an aside, I suspect that non-JavaScript-browsers are more popular
> > among people who complain to Eli than than among the general visitor
> > population.  :)
>
> [Besides supporting such browsers to some extent (for example, there's
> no sane way to get the documentation search to work there), it's also
> useful in the sense that it's closer to what crawlers see.]
>
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