[racket] off-topic -- Re: Live coding with Racket?

Matthias,
The computer science/programmer purist in me agrees with you.
The pragmatist in me sees though, that "proper coding" is not only not
a priority for many people, it doesn't even show up on the list
of things that matter.

Should it? yes!
George
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From: users [mailto:users-bounces at racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Matthias Felleisen
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 12:57 PM
To: Nick Shelley
Cc: users
Subject: Re: [racket] off-topic -- Re: Live coding with Racket?


On May 30, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Nick Shelley <nickmshelley at gmail.com> wrote:

> the audience that wants to learn and be engaged with minimal reading. Whether that's an audience worth catering to is another question and one I'm not equipped to answer.


I am absolutely sure you are correct that this audience exists, I am equally sure it's growing, I expect someone will take care of them with spoonfuls of principles that they can eat for dessert, but I won't be me. The best I can hope for is that the person who delivers these bite-size pieces of principles will be informed by my ideas on how to get people to code properly. 

-- Matthias


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