[racket-dev] release 5.3.5

ROAR is something like a second step but we don't assume that you have seen HtDP. 

HtDP is not about the examples but about [the] design [recipe] and as such truly novel. It isn't about Racket either, otherwise we'd use Racket in the book. As for 'interest', let freshmen judge. I'd prefer HtDP over ROAR any day. 

Thanks for your interest. 




On Jun 16, 2013, at 7:28 PM, WarGrey Gyoudmon Ju wrote:

> Sounds good to buy this book and I will do.
> Will the book take the place of 'How to design program' in which examples are quite simple and uninteresting even for the freshmen?
> 
> My translate LOL with the intention of exploring the racket way.
> Few resources could be the guider.
> 
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> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Realm of Racket is not a translation of Land of Lisp, though it borrows ideas from the latter for about 1/2 of the book. The ROAR code is far more functional and GUI than LOL. -- Matthias
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> On Jun 16, 2013, at 2:19 AM, WarGrey Gyoudmon Ju wrote:
> 
>> What a pity, I did not know this book before.
>> I've been translating the source code of Land of Lisp using the racket way.
>> I just finish the Grand Theft Wumpus game. 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Greg Hendershott
>> <greghendershott at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 1. I'm really excited about the book, which I'll buy.
>> >
>> > 2. Issuing a release solely to ship code for a book:
>> >
>> >   a. Seems unusual (to me), in general.
>> >
>> >   b. Plus right now, message seems at odds with the new package
>> > manager and plan to move away from shipping monolithic collects?
>> >
>> >   Admittedly that plan isn't in effect yet. But code for a book is a
>> > use case that today's package manager supports AFAICT. So why accrete
>> > another collection, is the reaction.
>> 
>> The problem is that the book has "collects/realm" printed in it and
>> was designed simultaneously with the package system, so it wasn't
>> clear to make it a package, how to describe getting it, etc.
>> 
>> Jay
>> 
>> > p.s. I'm sharing an observation casually, not stating an objection angrily.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Matthias Felleisen
>> > <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> We will release Racket v5.3.5 next week. The purpose of the
>> >> release is to include the Realm of Racket collection with the
>> >> v5.3.4 release, because the book is about to appear.
>> >>
>> >> The release will strictly be built from
>> >>
>> >> -- Racket v5.3.4
>> >> -- collects/realm as currently found in git head
>> >>
>> >> We will __not__ make any other changes.
>> >>
>> >> Eli has worked out a process and will launch it asap. We will
>> >> conduct a recursive diff of all .rkt files and we will run
>> >> basic checks to ensure the integrity of the release bundle.
>> >> If you're willing to help with these checks, please stay tuned.
>> >>
>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> >> DRAFT RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT:
>> >>
>> >> Racket version 5.3.5 is now available from
>> >>
>> >>  http://racket-lang.org/
>> >>
>> >> This is a special-purpose release to match the arrival of
>> >> "Realm of Racket" in bookstores. Racket v.5.3.5 adds a
>> >> single collection
>> >>
>> >> collects/realm/
>> >>
>> >> to the v5.3.4 release. The new collection contains the source
>> >> code that readers of Realm may wish to use for experiments.
>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> >>
>> >> Comments welcome. -- Matthias
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>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
>> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
>> 
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