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fern2000

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    Comment #25904291

    rscho, I'll believe you when I see you or someone else wrote some more complex web application in Racket, which works properly and is scalable. All of this will not happen, of cour…

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    Comment #25902419

    I think the case is simple here: Racket community was not capable of producing good programming language, so instead they decided to take someone else's better implementation: they…

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    Comment #25902369

    Yes, I'm aware that Racket is mainly education and research platform; that's exactly what I said in my previous post. Racket is not well-suited for practical web-programming. Proof…

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    Comment #25902318

    Come on, samth! Charging money for a book is not inappropriate. But charging (a lot of) money for a very lousy book are just pathetic. Did you ever read any of Jesse Alama's books?…

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    Comment #25901790

    Donald Knuth once said, “Premature Optimisation is the root of all evil!” But that message has obviously not yet reached the Racket community. Because how else do you explain this …

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    Racket developers have not heard of Donald Knuth

    Donald Knuth once said, “Premature Optimisation is the root of all evil!” But that message has obviously not yet reached the Racket community. Because how else do you explain this …