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Re:Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket just... by flavio81 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @08:44AM (#15081021)
wasn't HN in Arc?
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Re:Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket just... by farray on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @08:51AM (#15081071)
And what is Arc in?
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Re:Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket just... by flavio81 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @10:00AM (#15081582)
The CPython JIT/compiler is written in C. Does this mean that a Python program is then a C program?

Arc is not Racket.

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Re:Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket just... by _delirium on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:14AM (#15082108)
I suppose the original poster could clarify whether they were interested primarily in examples of the Scheme-derivative language "Racket" being used in production, or in the system/VM/runtime "Racket" being used in production. Since Racket (the system) now makes it very easy to define new languages on top of it with the #lang keyword, it might be nice to get more clearly distinct terms for these. The way the Java world uses JVM vs. Java, e.g. you'd say that a Clojure app runs "on the JVM", but it's not in Java.
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Re:Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket just... by _pmf_ on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @09:43AM (#15081438)
Ah, Arc, the No Man's Sky of Lisp derivatives
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