> Racket is just awesome. I don't know why it doesn't see more use.
I use Racket to study SICP so I haven't looked into the Racket language at all, but I can give you my impressions about the programming environment. On my netbook running Ubuntu, DrRacket is extremely slow and short keys don't work. I've found how to use the racket interpreter using (enter! "myfile.scm") and how to enable readline support, but it wasn't obvious at first. On my laptop also running Ubuntu, DrRacket is usable but strangely (enter! ...) raises an error. This gives the impression that the whole environment is not well polished. I think it would be useful to have an easy-to-find straightforward tutorial on how to use Racket with any editor and the text-based REPL, as many people are probably not keen on using DrRacket.
This is not a criticism or even an opinion but merely a feeling I'm expressing here, I'm sure I could (and will) address all these issues with more RTFM.
Just a quick note: enter! doesn't really make sense in DrRacket. When you evaluate your code in DrRacket it does the equivalent of an enter! for you. If you want help drop into #racket. I'll be there in a couple of hours.
I use Racket to study SICP so I haven't looked into the Racket language at all, but I can give you my impressions about the programming environment. On my netbook running Ubuntu, DrRacket is extremely slow and short keys don't work. I've found how to use the racket interpreter using (enter! "myfile.scm") and how to enable readline support, but it wasn't obvious at first. On my laptop also running Ubuntu, DrRacket is usable but strangely (enter! ...) raises an error. This gives the impression that the whole environment is not well polished. I think it would be useful to have an easy-to-find straightforward tutorial on how to use Racket with any editor and the text-based REPL, as many people are probably not keen on using DrRacket.
This is not a criticism or even an opinion but merely a feeling I'm expressing here, I'm sure I could (and will) address all these issues with more RTFM.