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New comment by sorawee in "Rhombus Language"

sorawee — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:56:20 +0000

See also https://github.com/mflatt/shplait, which is a language with (1) the HM type system and (2) the same syntax that Rhombus uses. The language itself is implemented in Rhombus.

New comment by sorawee in "Northeastern's redesign of the CS curriculum"

sorawee — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:33:07 +0000

To quote the above person: "tell me you haven't read the article without telling me".

You thought that supporting multiple "programming paradigms" is a nice thing, but it's the opposite for teaching beginning student. Experienced programmers want expressivity/customization/choices to do whatever they want. That's not what newbies need when they get stuck on an assignment.

New comment by sorawee in "Creating Languages in Racket (2011)"

sorawee — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 20:35:28 +0000

> I like how TS is unsound (has no runtime performance penalty for mixing untyped code), and is easily disabled via any if it's in the way.

This is already done. See https://github.com/racket/typed-racket/pull/952 for RFC and https://github.com/racket/typed-racket/pull/948 for the implementation.

New comment by sorawee in "Racket is 25"

sorawee — Mon, 11 May 2020 22:01:45 +0000

As a programmable programming language, I think it would be a shame if someone wants to use mutation and it's not available. On the other hand, if you don't want to use it, then don't use it! If you are a language creator that doesn't want your client to use variable mutation, you can even choose to not provide the construct very easily (see the Beginning Student Language which does exactly this).

New comment by sorawee in "Racket is 25"

sorawee — Mon, 11 May 2020 07:30:47 +0000

https://docs.racket-lang.org/racklog/ :)

New comment by sorawee in "Racket is 25"

sorawee — Sun, 10 May 2020 21:54:47 +0000

In DrRacket, when the cursor is on an identifier, you can hover over the big arrow at the top right corner of the definition window. A popup will appear showing basic usage of functions / macros without detailed explanation. However, you can click "read more..." which will open up the full documentation in a browser. Also, this documentation is installed locally and does not require the internet.

The Strange Zoom Pile-On

sorawee — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 04:14:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/strange-zoom-pile-on-robert-walker

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22846013

Points: 3

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Google Groups problems

sorawee — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 11:37:30 +0000

Article URL: https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/forum/#!topic/sg14/FZEWCOSyFlk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19005890

Points: 5

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