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Tag Archives: Racket

Essentials of Garbage Collection

Another great PLT effort for the backlog: How do we teach students the essential ideas behind garbage collection?

Geiser 0.3 is Released

Excellent for use with Racket. Get it here.

Rebootable Programs in Racket

Here is how to do it courtesy of TonyG.

This is How Easy it is to Make Changes to DrRacket

DrRacket is open-source (LGPL) editor for Racket. Sometimes you want to make changes to it. For example today I wanted to enable online compilation on single-core machines. Here is how easy it is to do it: Assuming that DrRacket is already installed. This is a normal installation using the installer; you do not typically have [...]

DrRacket for the Truly Impatient V02

DrRacket is a wonderful editor. It is so feature rich that the first time you begin using it, you may end up missing out on how powerful and pleasant it is to use due to the multitude of options and features. The following is my attempt to share the most useful and interesting features and [...]

RWind: The Beginnings of a Racket Based Window Manager

Check it out here.

Introduction to Racket

Here is a nice introduction to the inspiring parts of Racket and it’s culture (of Racketeers).

Generic Types in Racket

Here is a nice post about generic data types in Racket.

Geiser 0.2.1 ELPA Package

Here is an ELPA package for the Geiser library. The code is original from the author, I just packaged it up! Here is one way to install it: (require ‘package) (when (not (package-installed-p ‘geiser)) (url-copy-file "http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/geiser-0.2.1.tar" "/tmp/geiser-0.2.1.tar" t) (package-install-file "/tmp/geiser-0.2.1.tar"))

Understanding the Y-Combinator with Racket

Understanding the Y-Combinator seems to be one of the functional programming right-of-passage things, and for good reason, it is fun. Not all of the articles out there spoke to me, so I took notes while coding it up in a way that I understood it. My notes are attached in the form of a Scribble [...]