[racket-dev] Why is the Systems Programming guide using console-oriented Racket?

From: Danny Yoo (dyoo at hashcollision.org)
Date: Thu Jan 31 18:28:34 EST 2013

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> It emphasizes that Racket is broadly applicable, and works both in an
> IDE environment, and in a text editor/shell environment, each of which
> is preferred by large groups of developers.

Ok, this idea is important.  I'm just not sure that it should be
introduced in the Systems Programming guide.


It might (has!) lead to some confusion, especially since by using
enter!, it implicitly involves module paths.  If you look closely at
the user transcript in:

    http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2013-January/056208.html

the user did some pretty reasonable looking things, but all hitting
module path vs. regular paths issue.

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