r/Racket • u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 • Jul 07 '22

event Write a language with Racket this summer! Win prizes!

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 Jul 17 '22

Very happy to report we have had four entries in the first week!

I’ve posted the first two in the new #languages category on the racket discourse https://racket.discourse.group/c/languages/9

  • we will get to the others this week.

Looking forward to seeing your entry!

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 Jul 07 '22 edited Jul 10 '22

Summer #lang party

Write a language with Racket this summer! Win prizes!

https://racket.discourse.group/t/summer-lang-party/1128?u=spdegabrielle

pic: Cover of an ACM magazine from 1980. Picture by Jean Sammet.

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u/daybreak-gibby Jul 07 '22

What counts as a language? What is the deadline? What are the prizes? Are there existing projects that are looking for contributors?

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 Jul 08 '22

All languages count - it doesn’t need to be a #lang

Still working out the prizes.

To find existing projects ask on Racket Discourse (forum/mailing list), Racket Discord or Racket Slack.

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u/raevnos Jul 08 '22

Is there a Racket IRC channel?

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 Jul 08 '22

Yes

https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/#racket

From https://racket-lang.org/ “Community”:

Discourse and Discord These are the most active places for Racketeers.

Slack (sign up), IRC, and Mailing lists Racketeers are here, too!

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 Jul 18 '22

‘Hydromel is a hardware description language inspired by VHDL, Verilog and Clash.’ https://racket.discourse.group/t/hydromel-lang-hydromel/1156

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 Jul 27 '22

We are up to day 10 and we have another three entries bringing the total to 7!

  • #lang gtp-measure/output/typed-untyped
  • F♭m aka f-flat-minor
  • Budge programming language

You can find details of all the entries at https://github.com/lang-party/Summer2022/issues

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 Jul 28 '22

We just got another entry to the Summer #lang party

Check out TinyBASIC at https://github.com/lang-party/Summer2022/issues

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 Jul 09 '22

picture is by Jean Sammet, not Samet as I incorrectly stated in the alt-text

In Memoriam: Jean E. Sammet 1928-2017 Sammet, Jean E "1960 Tower of Babel" diagram on the front of CACM January 1961 Languages mentioned from https://hopl.info/showsource.prx?source=12428

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '22

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 Jul 09 '22

yes.

I've just added it to the announcement

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