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Re:Ask HN: Companies using Racket? by spacesuitman2 on Saturday November 03, 2018 @08:29PM (#18373297)
I have to agree on you regarding OS threads, although there are places, but they're processes. For long names, most names have an abbreviation like call-with-current-continuation has call/cc, and in any case, you can make your own abbreviation using make-rename-transformer so this shouldn't be an issue
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Re:Ask HN: Companies using Racket? by quadcore on Saturday November 03, 2018 @09:06PM (#18373421)
Why would one bother when clojure has core.async, short names and everything else?
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Re:Ask HN: Companies using Racket? by WillPostForFood on Saturday November 03, 2018 @10:51PM (#18373841)
The tooling is complicated with Clojure. If you are teaching an introductory class, having a single simple install of DrRacket is a big plus.
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Re:Ask HN: Companies using Racket? by quadcore on Sunday November 04, 2018 @11:41AM (#18376680)
Good point. Though I'm not so sure it's such a big deal in comparison of using a language that's not entertaining.
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Re:Ask HN: Companies using Racket? by spacesuitman2 on Saturday November 03, 2018 @09:23PM (#18373486)
Because racket has hygienic macros and #lang, and syntax-parse.
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