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Re: Newbie and Kawa
- From: Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay dot org>
- To: Charles Turner <chturne at gmail dot com>
- Cc: John Smith <jsmith030416 at yahoo dot co dot uk>, kawa at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 05:12:39 -0500
- Subject: Re: Newbie and Kawa
- References: <201112012333.pB1NX6Ze031920@winooski.ccs.neu.edu>
> I should make it clear that Racket is no longer a Scheme system.
> There are some fundamental differences these days in the default
> Racket language
This is mostly bogus: Racket is no longer a Scheme system in almost
exactly the same way that Kawa isn't.
> (hence the name change from PLT Scheme to Racket),
This is also similar to "Kawa" being named that. See also
http://racket-lang.org/new-name.html
> you can chose Scheme languages within Racket (like r5rs), but
> they're not enabled by default, so be careful about that.
Racket's R5RS language is strict in that it gives you *just* R5RS, and
as such it is not useful for much.
> Racket's infrastructure (in particular DrRacket) has been tailored to
> beginners, [...]
And that's also very wrong.
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