TITLE: Racket Love
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: February 26, 2018  3:55 PM
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 Racket -- "A Programmable Programming Language" -- is the cover
 story for next month's <EM>Communications of the ACM</EM>.  The
 new issue is already featured on
<A HREF="https://cacm.acm.org/">
   the magazine's home page</A>,
 including a short video in which Matthias Felleisen explains
 the idea of code as more than a machine artifact.

 My love of Racket is no surprise to readers of this blog.
 Still one of my favorite old posts here is
<A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2012-09.html#e2012-09-29T16_04_35.htm">
   The Racket Way</A>,
 a write-up of my notes from Matthew Flatt's talk of the same
 name at StrangeLoop 2012.  As I said in that post, this was
 a deceptively impressive talk.  I think that's especially
 fitting, because Racket is a deceptively impressive language.

 One last little bit of love from
<A HREF="https://groups.google.com/d/msg/racket-users/ePdWlrdUc2o/eyts1Q8yCwAJ">
   a recent message</A>
 to the Racket users mailing list...
<A HREF="https://twitter.com/sj_mackenzie">
   Stewart Mackenzie</A>
 describes his feelings about the seamless interweaving of
 Racket and Typed Racket via a <TT>#lang</TT> directive:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
 So far my dive into Racket has positive.  It's magical how
 I can switch from untyped Racket to typed Racket simply by
 changing </EM><TT>#lang</TT><EM>.  Banging out my thoughts
 in a beautiful lisp 1, wave a finger, then finger crack to
 type check.  Just sublime.
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

That's what you get when your programming language is as
programmable as your application.
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