[racket] RacketCon 2012?

[Scott Hickey]

Are there any plans for a RacketCon 2012?

Scott Hickey

[Luke Vilnis]

+1 It was really a wonderful opportunity last year.

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Scott Hickey <jscott...@gmail.com> wrote:

Are there any plans for a RacketCon 2012?

Scott Hickey

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[Sam Tobin-Hochstadt]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Scott Hickey <jscott...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Are there any plans for a RacketCon 2012?

Yes, we hope to hold another RacketCon, likely in August in Boston.

If you have any ideas about what you would like to see at RacketCon,
such as talks, tutorials, hacking, or anything else, please let me
know.
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[Kun Liang]

I am very interesting in racket hacking:)

2012/5/16 Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@ccs.neu.edu>

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[Vasishtha Spier]

I'm not sure this is the right conference if its mostly for experienced Racketeers, but if its being video'ed it might still be useful. But I think it would be useful in some conference to have a talk on Racket for experienced imperative programmers.

 

Why they should be using it. What advantages it gives them over their usual languages.

 

How its"practical" ,  fast, has FFI, modules, system command etc.

 

But most of all how to approach learning it if you have a project starting in the next few months.  A reading list, and most of all prioritizing the different Racket and functional programming topics. What are the most important topics to learn before you have to start writing your project and what can be absorbed later etc.

 

Thanks,

Harry Spier

 

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[Eduardo Bellani]

I would vote to see an emphasis on syntax manipulation and DSL on racket, as
I see it as the great market differentiation for racket.

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[Neil Van Dyke]

Vasishtha Spier wrote at 05/21/2012 02:12 PM:

But most of all how to approach learning it if you have a project starting in the next few months.  A reading list, and most of all prioritizing the different Racket and functional programming topics. What are the most important topics to learn before you have to start writing your project and what can be absorbed later etc.

 

This is pretty much the exact target audience of the book that I'm working on very slowly.

For now, I'd suggest starting with:

1. See "http://docs.racket-lang.org/getting-started/index.html".

2. Do little one-hour  ``pilot projects'' and experiments.

3. Ask questions on this email list.

A few months is a luxurious lead time to prep for a one-person project that will be on a schedule.  Or, if you'll have a project team, a few months gives you some time to start to become a guru on the technology.  However, if you have a team project, and you have some tricky problems to solve, or you want to get a team up to speed more quickly and reduce the number of wrong turns, I think one good way is to have a consultant help.  (Full disclosure: I make a living being such a consultant.)  You could also rapidly own expertise by hiring a new employee: a seasoned expert, or a promising new grad who's been using Racket.

Alternate strategy: if you want to be coding on your project in Racket by lunchtime, just pretend it's Pascal with a Lisp syntax, and start typing.  You probably won't get the big wins that way, but I've seen it done successfully wrt business goals.

Neil V.