<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> What would be the best task to show off Racket's advantages intrinsic to the language and less to library support?  It would have to somehow abuse hygienic macros I suppose--some kind of task like embedding a DSL, so what would be a good one?  Maybe something with graphics to show off functional composition of pictures--perhaps the task could be to recreate IRL (imperative robot language)...the state machine with the robot from the Haskell book The Haskell School of Expression.  Other ideas are welcome...<br> <br> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/10/2013 04:17 PM, Daniel Prager wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CAFKxZVUE2kt3VwWbf_5aV+tEV53v89SfjV1Ab7eOkTpHRu=Znw@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">Sean wrote: <div><tt style="margin:0px;font-family:courier,'courier new',monospace;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px">> Also, Racket is one short of Python in popularity. If </tt></div> <div><tt style="margin:0px;font-family:courier,'courier new',monospace;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px">> someone could do </tt><tt style="margin:0px;font-family:courier,'courier new',monospace;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px">two more we'll defeat those lazy Python </tt></div> <div><tt style="margin:0px;font-family:courier,'courier new',monospace;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px">> programmers, probably with less </tt><tt style="margin:0px;font-family:courier,'courier new',monospace;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px">work!</tt><br> </div> <div><tt style="margin:0px;font-family:courier,'courier new',monospace;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px"><br> </tt></div> <div style=""><tt style="margin:0px;font-family:courier,'courier new',monospace;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px">Also, you can add your new tasks, which opens up another strategy for advancing the Racket ranking.</tt></div> <div style=""><tt style="margin:0px;font-family:courier,'courier new',monospace;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px"><br> </tt></div> <div style=""><tt style="margin:0px;font-family:courier,'courier new',monospace;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px">Guidelines on new task creation:</tt></div> <div style=""><tt style="margin:0px"><font color="#000000" face="courier, courier new, monospace"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19px"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code:Add_a_Task">http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code:Add_a_Task</a></span></font><br> </tt></div> <div style=""><tt style="margin:0px;font-family:courier,'courier new',monospace;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px"><br> </tt></div> <div style=""><tt style="margin:0px;font-family:courier,'courier new',monospace;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px">I added my first last night --<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Deming%27s_Funnel">http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Deming%27s_Funnel</a> -- together with a Racket solution, shortly followed by a contributed Python approximation (so the Pythonistas aren't totally lazy!) while still in draft.</tt></div> <div style=""><tt style="margin:0px;font-family:courier,'courier new',monospace;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px"><br> </tt></div> <div style=""><tt style="margin:0px;font-family:courier,'courier new',monospace;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px">-- Dan</tt></div> </div> <br> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <br> <pre wrap="">____________________ Racket Users list: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> </pre> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html>