<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Racket Noob wrote at 12/19/2011 05:02 PM: <blockquote cite="mid:COL105-W510FE1A9F4045789F288F8C9A70@phx.gbl" type="cite"> <style></style> <div dir="ltr"> <div>I think that Racket primarily serves to a specific group of people as an inexhaustible source for mass-production of always the same academic articles, and much less for everyday, practical programming.</div> </div> </blockquote> <br> I myself am quite fond of inflammatory tone as recreational activity, but in this case, the substance of your assertion is far off the mark on multiple points, which I think spoils the effect.<br> <br> <blockquote cite="mid:COL105-W510FE1A9F4045789F288F8C9A70@phx.gbl" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr"> <div>I think it would be most useful that, after the "Continue" tutorial, follows one realistic example of more complex web application, through a detailed story about how and why it was made just that way.</div> </div> </blockquote> <br> This is a good suggestion. It will also take a while for someone to do, so, in the meantime, people might be interested in a (non-mass-produced) article on earlier Racket Web app support: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://untyped.com/files/icfp068-welsh.pdf">http://untyped.com/files/icfp068-welsh.pdf</a><br> <br> <div class="moz-signature">-- <br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.neilvandyke.org/">http://www.neilvandyke.org/</a> </div> </body> </html>