Racket Syntax: The Great, the Good and the Back-to-the-Drawing-Board (2024) [video](youtube.com)
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Racket Syntax: The Great, the Good and the Back-to-the-Drawing-Board (2024) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtTqRH1uwu4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtTqRH1uwu4
"In this talk I present a linguistic comparison of language choices in Racket and LISP vs. a number of other computer languages. LISP is by far the programming language with the simplest syntax: only using parenthesis as delineations. However, the Racket and LISP communities have over time added a great variety of semantics on this simple mechanism, some of which have proven great inventions, and some of which other languages may have better solutions to, and that the Racket and LISP communities may learn from. The talk will directly compare elements of yaml, SmallTalk, Ruby, Java, regular expressions, visual programming, and shell programming with Racket."