A Haskell Programmer Tries to Learn Racket
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Re: A Haskell Programmer Tries to Learn Racket
#2Nicely written, and a fun exploration.
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#3"...but nothing beyond that. As long as Node.js exists in this world, I can't truly hate anything else."
I found this hilarious. I am also rather underwhelmed (to be nice) with Nodejs and a little bothered at its wide adoption.
I have also been learning racket recently; my formal language and functional programming class uses it. I had some previous experience with common lisp but the raw nature of scheme still pleasantly surprised me a little bit.
EDIT: From what I remember, javascript was "inspired" by scheme. Obviously that when well...
Re: A Haskell Programmer Tries to Learn Racket
#4I like the approach you took to writing this post. This wasn't the typical attempt to summarize an entire programming language in a page (which IMO is done too often, too poorly), but rather an exploration. As you went through each section, I could see how you were approaching various problems and learned a lot about Racket in the process. I would love to see more of this style of post.
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#5I like the approach you took to writing this post. This wasn't the typical attempt to summarize an entire programming language in a page (which IMO is done too often, too poorly), but rather an exploration. As you went through each section, I could see how you were approaching various problems and learned a lot about Racket in the process. I would love to see more of this style of post.
Of course I couldn't summarize Racket in a page – I don't know it! And there's so much to learn about it that I could probably write half a hundred posts of this length and still consider myself a beginner.
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#6That was intellectually honest. Good read.
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#7Is this... a Let's Play of learning a programming language? Because it's surprisingly effective. I learned and I was entertained.
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#8Is this... a Let's Play of learning a programming language? Because it's surprisingly effective. I learned and I was entertained.
I would definitely watch a video series in which an experienced and talented programmer tried out various programming languages for an hour and gave first impressions, comparisons, etc as they hacked something together during the video.
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#9"...but nothing beyond that. As long as Node.js exists in this world, I can't truly hate anything else." I found this hilarious. I am also rather underwhelmed (to be nice) with Nodejs and a little bothered at its wide adoption. I have also been learning racket recently; my formal language and functional programming class uses it. I had some previous experience with common lisp but the raw nature of scheme still pleas…
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Re: A Haskell Programmer Tries to Learn Racket
#10One note:
> Racket's default IDE is better than GHCi and probably on par with Emacs (you almost certainly can configure Emacs to be better than anything, but it's not trivial and people don't bother, while DrRacket provides autocompletion and documentation out of the box).
Last I used it (a few years ago), DrRacket was very laggy, so I would find it very hard to use for a serious project. YMMV, maybe it's improved.