[racket] Thanks for being awesome

Wow, that was fast. It's pretty cool to see such proactive change in a
project happen so quickly.


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Ryan Culpepper <ryanc at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> Thanks for the kind words! Just a note: the db library is now part of the
> Racket distribution. Use (require db) instead. I just added a note to the
> PLaneT entry.
>
> Ryan
>
>
> On 04/29/2013 01:44 PM, Sean McBeth wrote:
>
>> Dear Racketeers,
>>
>> I'm starting a project in earnest in Racket and spent about an hour last
>> night getting some baseline stuff set up. Most of that time was spent
>> figuring out how to get Postgres running, having been experienced in
>> setting up only SQL Server and MySQL.
>>
>> A very bare minimum amount of time was spent typing "(require (planet
>> ryanc/db))" into the top of my file, entering the very few configuration
>> settings, and having immediate access to my database. It was such a
>> pleasure to setup in comparison to the many and vast DB connection
>> libraries for other, lesser programming languages I've used over the
>> last 10 years.
>>
>> And this was only the latest in other, similarly awesome discoveries
>> within Racket. My mind was absolutely blown the other day when I saw
>> that threading could be as simple as wrapping a call to (thread) around
>> my procedure. Or that there was this amazing Racket to Javascript
>> translator that Just Worked, unlike some other languages that claim to
>> have the same thing but shall not be mentioned (*cough*Clojure*cough*).
>> Or the simplicity and power of the math library. Or that it wasn't just
>> the trendy Web stuff that you guys cared about, that there was tons of
>> other code for plenty of other uses, without just punting out to a
>> foreign-function interface all the time, unlike some other languages
>> that have already been mentioned through throat-clearing-maneuvers. Or
>> that it setup on all of my machines--Windows, Linux, and OS X--exactly
>> the same without any extra effort, unlike... well, you get the point.
>>
>> Anyway, thanks for being so awesome. Racket is awesome, PLaneT is
>> awesome, the community is awesome, and it all comes together in one
>> amazingly coherent and awesome package. And that's awesome.
>>
>> Love,
>> -Sean
>>
>>
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