[racket] Why don't you tackle a universe-based pong game?

@Matthias Wow neat stuff!!  I haven't read the papers yet but I definitely
will.

@Emmanuel (and anybody) Your comments make me realize I have a lot of
questions still.  About how Racket is used in these courses, how old the
students are, whether/if the pong stuff I've done is *really/truly* likely
to find use in them, whether there's consensus amoung Racket(eers? :) that
the Moby/Whalesong stuff is important to the future of Racket (both in the
browser and with phonegap to address smartphones and tablets), whether a
follow up to Realms of Racket has ever been discussed (I'd thought my Pong
game might be a natural fit for that), what's up with Pyret am I right that
is some of the Racket people but it looks like it's not implemented as a
Racket language on top of Moby/Whalesong (which disappoints me if so that
feels against the Racket vision as I thought I understood it).

In other words, I have so many questions I can be annoying. :)

Do you guys do like IRC chats maybe that's a better venue than my
too-lengthy-for-some (I've been told by various people in the past) emails?
:)

Darren

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>
wrote:

>
> On Jan 19, 2015, at 5:36 PM, Darren Cruse <darren.cruse at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I wonder if others have thought this way too?  Or if Racket maybe has
> something similar to this idea already?  (I'd stumbled briefly on "Places"
> was that like this I wonder?)
> >
>
>
> For the past few years, we have explored scaling up the universe-based
> from middle school to DNS proxy servers and such things. And we have
> managed to do so. At this moment there are two prototype languages --
> Marketplace and Minimart -- that support this style of programming at scale:
>
>  -- it supports an actor-oriented programming style, though functionally
>  -- it comes with a message bus for pub/sub exchanges
>  -- the bus notices appearances and disappearances of actors
>  -- and entire collections of actors and their bus can appear as a single
> actor in another collection.
>
> For more technical information, see
> http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/#esop14-gjthf (which is a conference
> publication) and follow the link to supplemental information. Marketplace
> and Minimart are of course available as packages.
>
> Warning: both are prototypes and will evolve (probably into another
> language).
>
> -- Matthias
>
>
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