takikawa's comments

takikawa | 13 years ago | on: The Nature of Lisp

That's not a problem though: delimited continuations are more expressive than undelimited ones anyway and often are a more natural way to solve programming problems.

takikawa | 13 years ago | on: Amb: A Redex Tutorial

Probably the best way to learn what an evaluation context is to read the book you've linked to there. Alternatively, it's basically what the Racket reference section on the evaluation model calls a "continuation": http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/eval-model.html

We do try hard to make the docs understandable though, so if you have some feedback please do mention it on the mailing list so that the responsible devs can try to address it.

takikawa | 13 years ago | on: Why I don't use Racket or any other Scheme

The title is misleading since the blog author admits to not having tried Racket recently. IMHO, Racket fixes the author's key complaint about documentation by having a Guide (separate from Reference) with many examples: http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/index.html

Since Racket isn't Scheme, it also comes with more data structures built-in and there's on-going work to better support numerical computation.

takikawa | 13 years ago | on: Stop teaching calculating; Start teaching math

I think you'd be interested in Bootstrap World, which is basically what you described: http://www.bootstrapworld.org/

takikawa | 13 years ago | on: Racket v5.3

There are two features that take advantage of hardware parallelism: futures & places, which work at different granularities. You can find the guide entry on them here: http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/performance.html#(part._ef...

There are also green threads for concurrency: http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/concurrency.html

takikawa | 13 years ago | on: Racket v5.3

Yes, it does. The JIT compiler doesn't work on ARM, but otherwise it's fine. This blog post explains how one person got Racket on an Android phone w/ARM: http://www.wedesoft.de/racket-on-android.html

takikawa | 13 years ago | on: Racket v5.3

Last year, someone from Naughty Dog gave a talk at CUFP about using Racket: http://cufp.org/conference/sessions/2011/functional-mzscheme...

takikawa | 13 years ago | on: Best way to learn racket?

There are a few tutorials in the docs too, such as the More[1] tutorial. I agree that it could be nice to have "Racket for X programmers" guides.

If you get stuck, the community on IRC at #racket on Freenode is friendly & active and so is the mailing list.

[1]: http://docs.racket-lang.org/more/index.html

takikawa | 13 years ago | on: Open-Source High-quality PDF of SICP

The easiest way to use SICP with Racket is to use the sicp.plt package on the package repository: http://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/neil/sicp.plt/1...