[racket] what is the purpose of the DrScheme Executable?

From: Jos Koot (jos.koot at telefonica.net)
Date: Sun Mar 6 11:30:11 EST 2011

Thanks for your correction. 
Neverteless I want to emphasize the great and easily accessible features of
DrScheme (and DrScheme)
It may be the case that for some users the transition from DrScheme to
DrRacket was an essential transition. For me it was not.
Jos

> -----Original Message-----
> From: shriram at gmail.com [mailto:shriram at gmail.com] On Behalf 
> Of Shriram Krishnamurthi
> Sent: 06 March 2011 15:56
> To: Jos Koot
> Cc: Carl Eastlund; Stephen De Gabrielle; Racket Users
> Subject: Re: [racket] what is the purpose of the DrScheme Executable?
> 
> Jos, he's referring to the distinction between Dr*Scheme* and
> Dr*Racket*.  Re-read the original message.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Jos Koot 
> <jos.koot at telefonica.net> wrote:
> > I think it is much more than that. It is a very nice programming
> > environment, provides check syntax, documentation, 
> profiles, logs and much
> > more including an editor that you can use without referring 
> to doc pages.
> > Jos
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: users-bounces at racket-lang.org
> >> [mailto:users-bounces at racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Carl Eastlund
> >> Sent: 06 March 2011 14:22
> >> To: Stephen De Gabrielle
> >> Cc: Racket Users
> >> Subject: Re: [racket] what is the purpose of the DrScheme 
> Executable?
> >>
> >> It's there for backwards compatibility with launcher scripts
> >> and the like.
> >>
> >> Carl Eastlund
> >>
> >> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle
> >> <stephen.degabrielle at acm.org> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I noticed the DrScheme executable in 5.1  Does it have a 
> purpose?  I
> >> > can't see any obvious difference, apart from the name.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> >
> >> > Stephen
> >>
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