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fn-motetoday at 4:56 PM3 repliesview on HN

Much as I am a fan of Racket, this is not a friendly intro. It is a speedrun.

When an introduction says “friendly”, I don’t expect it to assume that I know what lambda is.

When an introduction says “friendly”, I don’t expect syntax rules to appear in it. At all.


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allthetimetoday at 6:16 PM

It is rich with information, to the point, and presented in a way that a motivated and competent reader can immediately know something about and be useful with racket. That’s how it was for me anyways; someone who didn’t know anything about racket before reading through this.

Wtf kind of intro to a programming language doesn’t include syntax rules? We are all informed, experienced, technologically inclined people here. Not dumb children.

I’m struggling to see your comment as anything more than contrarian babble.

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phlakatontoday at 6:25 PM

When I see "friendly introduction," I don't expect to see a deadhead sticker front and center. But I guess if you're an actual Deadhead it's not that startling. ;-)

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y1n0today at 7:46 PM

not to mention a skull? is it a racket thing (or lisp in general thing) to spoof the grateful dead logo?

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