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Haskell seems pretty left brained to me!

Actually at the bottom of page 2 of Maynard's preprint he states: "We emphasize that the above result does not incorporate any of the technology used by Zhang to establish the exis…

Why not F#?

I think the main difference is that SLIME is for Common Lisp and Geiser is for Guile/Racket. More than that, I don't know enough about SLIME to say.

Haskell certainly has a big learning curve, but the experience will be much more rewarding than learning Clojure or F#. Haskell is a (relatively) uncompromising language and Clojur…

You don't actually need the second lambda since all Haskell functions take one argument, so you can just do f = \x y -> x + y and you'll have an implicit lambda before the y.

Python implementations do not have tail call optimization but that doesn't really have anything to do with functional programming. Common Lisp has mutable data structures by defaul…

I'm a grad student that works in Racket and fwiw I find that I prefer emacs for editing but DrRacket for testing and debugging. It has great tools for documentation, locating error…

If you're going to try Scheme and you're scared of emacs/vim, I'd suggest Racket. It's got a nice IDE (DrRacket) and a lot of the community is focused on teaching so there's a lot …

I'm an emacs lover myself, but for that use-case it seems like all you need is rlwrap: http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/rlwrap/#rlwrap

Racket allows for (), [] or {} in code and it seems that in practice [] is used to distinguish some syntactic forms that have nested parens from normal function calls such as the l…

I mean I can see how that would be a sexual joke given a certain tone of voice.

Pretty much: https://github.com/imkevinxu/faithinhumanity/blob/master/fai...

Cool work but doesn't mix well with text selection. I'm not into js but I wonder if it would be easy to distinguish between clicking on one spot and clicking and dragging for say c…