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Re:Racket Language by djtango on Sunday April 21, 2024 @01:43AM (#40103422)
As a Clojure developer who did write some Racket, there is a satisfying purity to Scheme (at least to me).
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Re:Racket Language by darby_eight on Sunday April 21, 2024 @02:51AM (#40103674)
This is a wonderful answer!

I return to my main calling: figuring out why people use PLT scheme without an academic incentive. There must be an answer here somewhere....

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Re:Racket Language by triyambakam on Sunday April 21, 2024 @02:55AM (#40103697)
Is this a joke or why don't you think they answered the question?
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Re:Racket Language by darby_eight on Sunday April 21, 2024 @02:58AM (#40103708)
A) this is absolutely a joke

B) they haven't answered which cookie color makes them bananas for their ultraspeculated examination coming up this tuesday

C) It's meaningful the only product anyone has built from racket has been hacker news itself.

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Re:Racket Language by runesoerensen on Sunday April 21, 2024 @03:05AM (#40103739)
This is just getting more confusing.
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Re:Racket Language by darby_eight on Sunday April 21, 2024 @03:13AM (#40103772)
amen
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Re:Racket Language by runesoerensen on Sunday April 21, 2024 @03:57AM (#40103944)
Regarding HN and racket: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9270478
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Re:Racket Language by jnxx on Monday April 22, 2024 @02:44PM (#40117438)
I guess one can think of Clojure as a very Scheme-affine Lisp. Which is not surprising since Scheme was a kind of distilled iteration of Common Lisp as a common denominator.

Are there any Schemes which are as "Batteries included" as Clojure with broad and deep library support? (I think Racket has quite good support!)

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