[racket] [BULK] Fundamentals

'Begone foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!'

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:56 PM, namekuseijin <namekuseijin at gmail.com> wrote:
> he would probably look at you funny and point you to Amazon.com and
> some deep obscure Lord of the Rings passage.
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Richard Cleis <rcleis at mac.com> wrote:
>> How would he respond to questions that I must answer: "You use Racket? For scripting or for programming? Is Racket interpreted or compiled?"
>>
>> rac
>>
>> 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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