[racket] Blog post about Racket

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon May 12 12:24:13 EDT 2014

I'll watch from the other side as we wait for the last "macros are evil" programmer to die. Oh but we just found a reason in a different thread that will keep C alive, so perhaps you'll join me there first :-) 






On May 12, 2014, at 11:26 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> At Mon, 12 May 2014 11:06:11 -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>> 
>> On May 12, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Matthew Butterick <mb at mbtype.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> To be fair, that will be difficult given how often the docs refer to the 
>> m-word ;)
>> 
>> 
>> Yes, I am losing this battle even with those of my own students who work on 
>> syntactic matters (Matthew, Ryan, and Shriram). 
> 
> I tried for a while to avoid the word, but it was too awkward. Some of
> the world has since caught up to the idea that "macros" can be good,
> and I expect that the rest of the world will catch up.
> 



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