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Re:Realm of Racket by gecko on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @01:22PM (#5900624)
I actually get where the author's coming from.

While it's tempting to think of Racket as a Scheme implementation, and that was at one time true, the situation these days is quite different. It's a lot more accurate to say that Racket ships with a Scheme-like default language (and an actual R5RS-compatible Scheme), but that it's actually a wonderful language toolkit. Racket has the ability for individual modules to use their own syntax. Not macros; full-fledged syntax. Racket ships with several Lisp-like syntaxes, but it also ships with Datalog and ALGOL-68. And this is very much unique to Racket.

Re:Realm of Racket by TylerE on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @01:56PM (#5900876)
So sort of an LLVM for languages that failed to gain acceptance outside of academia?
Re:Realm of Racket by soegaard on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @02:50PM (#5901194)
Re:Realm of Racket by samth on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @11:24AM (#5906043)
Not only is this wrong about Racket as soegaard points out, but it's wrong about Datalog too.