fern2000
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Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I think the case is simple here: Racket community was not capable of producing good programming language, so instead they decided to take someone else's better implementation: they decided to abandon the years and years of their efforts, because they realized that Kent Dybvig (a real hero i this story!) was better than all of them. That's why they decided to take his Chez scheme and parasitate on his effort.
The very fact that they did this tells us a lot about Racket's community “achievements”!
Comment · 5 years ago
Come on, samth! Charging money for a book is not inappropriate. But charging (a lot of) money for a very lousy book are just pathetic. Did you ever read any of Jesse Alama's books? Thank God you didn't. That guy is tipical Racket community parasite: he parasitizes on your efforts and pains by charging his bad books, thus destroying the reputation of the entire community who turns out unable to write a fair book on how to use racket in a practical way.
And yes, the documentation is poor. I'm experienced developer and could tell that. Check this mess: https://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/stateless.html#%28pa... WTF?
All of this will not happen, of course, because there is no such application written in the Racket in the world (no wonder when the documentation is so awful!)
When there's at least one, let me know.