[racket] Why did a LISP-like language never made it to THE language for Web2.0

Greetings.

A couple of points...

On 2014 Jan 15, at 18:58, Frank Weytjens <fweytjens.android at gmail.com> wrote:

Parenthetically:

> Found a nice package on CTAN <http://www.ctan.org/>, but was not root on my
> own PC. So I couldn't add it to the already installed packages.

TeX has an elaborate search path, which is intended to include user-writable directories for precisely this purpose.  For example ~/local/texmf/... might be in that path.

The way to find out what that path is, is to run 

  % kpsepath tex

and make some educated guesses based on the output of that (this output is unfortunately intended to be machine- rather than human-readable).

Use

  % kpsewhich foo.sty

to check whether an installed file is indeed showing up in the search path.

Returning to Racket:

> I don't know about the existence of webpages that are generated
> 'Racket-wise.'
> I just checked racket-lang.org, did a 'view source' and noticed
> in the metadata: name => generator content =>racket
> So it does exist!?

Have a look at the xml library <http://docs.racket-lang.org/xml/index.html?q=xexpr>.  You can easily construct an xexpr such as 

  '(doc () "over " (em () "9000") "!")

using whatever means you like, and then use xexpr->string to serialise this to XML.  That's how _I_ generate most of my XML/XHTML.  XML is basically just sexps with weird brackets.

All the best,

Norman


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