[racket] Blog post about Racket
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.
>