[racket] [BULK] Fundamentals

From: Richard Cleis (rcleis at mac.com)
Date: Thu Oct 14 15:36:50 EDT 2010

How would he respond to questions that I must answer: "You use Racket? For scripting or for programming? Is Racket interpreted or compiled?"

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On Oct 14, 2010, at 12:51 PM, namekuseijin wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Richard Cleis <rcleis at mac.com> wrote:
>> As someone who doesn't know better, I like your post.  Can you explain 'script' ?
> 
> as Larry Wall put it:
> "Suppose you went back to Ada Lovelace and asked her the difference
> between a script and a program. She'd probably look at you funny, then
> say something like: Well, a script is what you give the actors, but a
> program is what you give the audience. That Ada was one sharp lady..."
> 
> source:
> http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Larry_Wall#The_State_of_the_Onion_11



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