Is this some sort of early April Fools joke?
PLT Scheme being renamed to PLT Racket
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Re: PLT Scheme being renamed to PLT Racket
#12Nice move. Names matter. I like it.
Re: PLT Scheme being renamed to PLT Racket
#13Old executables, web sites, mailing addresses, and module names will forward to the new ones. We will work to make the transition as painless as possible and to preserve old references for as long as possible.
So folks using Arc can probably expect
mzscheme -f as.scm
Re: PLT Scheme being renamed to PLT Racket
#14ponzi, would be just too cute perhaps ?
That's a winner:-)
Made me think of Risky, but Ponzi is better.
Re: PLT Scheme being renamed to PLT Racket
#15Is this some sort of early April Fools joke?
If it isn't they could've picked a better date for the announcement.
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#16Re: PLT Scheme being renamed to PLT Racket
#17It looks to me as though they're opening the doors to extend Scheme beyond RxRS specifications. Or am I misreading their press release?
You are. They already have a dialect of Scheme that contains many extensions beyond the RxRS specs, this is just giving it a name so that people stop confusing "PLT's dialect of Scheme" with "Scheme in general". Personally, I'm not a big fan of the name "Racket", because it makes me think of tennis rather than racketeering. However, I do support the idea of having a PLT "brand" rather than a hodgepodge of names like…
racket n. an illegal or dishonest scheme
Makes perfect sense.
Re: PLT Scheme being renamed to PLT Racket
#18Old executables, web sites, mailing addresses, and module names will forward to the new ones. We will work to make the transition as painless as possible and to preserve old references for as long as possible. So folks using Arc can probably expect mzscheme -f as.scm to still be supported for some time.
Doesn't Arc require you to use a version of mzscheme from 2007?
Re: PLT Scheme being renamed to PLT Racket
#19Why can't they be like clojure and pick a name that isn't overloaded by everything else...
Re: PLT Scheme being renamed to PLT Racket
#20Old executables, web sites, mailing addresses, and module names will forward to the new ones. We will work to make the transition as painless as possible and to preserve old references for as long as possible. So folks using Arc can probably expect mzscheme -f as.scm to still be supported for some time.
Doesn't Arc require you to use a version of mzscheme from 2007?
Yea your right it won't really change arc anyways. pg hasn't ported it to not use set-car! etc...