Sending these responses to the group.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Nick Shelley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nickmshelley@gmail.com" target="_blank">nickmshelley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks for the link, I should definitely go through that.<div><br></div><div>However, after quickly looking through the problem set, it seems like these are problems made for features, not features solving real problems. It's easy to say that we have powerful macros and you don't, but until someone sees how they can apply it to what they are doing, they won't want it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, I can know and understand a feature in and out, but maybe never realize where I can apply it until I see examples. However, since I don't understand any features that well, maybe some of you experts can say how easy it is to apply language features to real problems after gaining sufficient understanding of the feature or whether examples would have been or were helpful to you even after understanding a feature.<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Tom Maynard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@maynard.com" target="_blank">tom@maynard.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 05/09/2012 04:50 PM, Nick Shelley wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"> a list (maybe on a wiki or something) of real
problems that were solved </blockquote>
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In the Clojure sphere, what you're talking about is <a href="http://www.4clojure.com/" target="_blank">4clojure</a>. There's no reason a
Racketeer couldn't work through the problem set ... and since it
would be a solo effort (no community support or published answers),
you'd be thrown on the available resources heavily, and probably
learn quite a bit more.<br>
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OTOH, a Racket version of the same thing ... or a developing
4clojure community of Racket solvers ... would indeed be a terrific
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Tom.<br>
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