[racket] Blog post about Racket

Matthias Felleisen writes:

 > This is not a misconception. It's an understanding based
 > on spending 15 years next to a top-10 department in scientific
 > computing, in a computer science department that was spun off
 > from that department, and a huge research group in the latter
 > that supported the former. 
 > 
 > What has changed is the world and what it calls scientific
 > computing :-) 

Exactly. Initially scientists picked up computing for number
crunching, but today they use it for much more.

 > Having said that I know that the above-mentioned group have
 > moved to Java and claim to get decent performance -- but their
 > programming style is, well, peculiar. 

HotSpot has improved to the point of making JVM languages a decent
choice even for number crunching. I even know a few scientists who
claim they actually like Java - but they did C++ before, so they can
be excused ;-)

Konrad.