[racket] way off-topic but fun Re: Can't get my language package to work

From: J Arcane (jarcane at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 18 13:13:58 EST 2014

Realm of Racket is quite good. I wish the sections on macros and languages
could've been longer, they went a long way to finally demystifying them for
me!

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>
wrote:

>
> On Nov 18, 2014, at 5:58 AM, J Arcane <jarcane at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think the "weirdness" and "difficulty" of Lisp syntax is mostly
> overstated anyhow, if I could get a handle at that age on the madness that
> was most languages then, and if kids now can get a handle on JavaScript of
> all things, I don't think the parens are so scary.
>
>>
>
> > I'll leave that to the Racket team. ;)
>
>
> See Realm of Racket. It explicitly expects that someone has been exposed
> to a so-called programming course.
>
> -- Matthias
>
>
>
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